TV
Jessica talks LOCAL on the Sunrise Book Club on Hawai’i News Now. Watch the full segment here.
PODCASTS
For NPR’s 1A, Jessica contextualizes what Native Hawaiians have lost in Maui wildfires.
On Hawai’i Public Radio, Jessica talks to Russell Subiono about what it means to be local in Hawai’i. Listen here.
On Discourse Blog, Sam Grasso and Jessica discuss “The Bitter Legacy of American Colonialism.”
Jessica chats with Author Magazine EIC Bill Kenowar about writing about — and in — loneliness on the Author2Author pod.
Listen to Jessica read her Bitch Media story on Bessie Smith, "Got the World in a Jug," on the Popaganda podcast.
TEXT
Publisher’s Weekly reviews LOCAL as “a luminous coming-of-age portrait.”
Electric Literature reviews LOCAL and other books that “show the complex reality of life in paradise.”
Katie Couric Media names LOCAL one of 13 must-read books by AAPI authors.
Spectrum News Hawai’i previews LOCAL here.
Read about the pull to move away in “London Calling,” an excerpt from LOCAL, in The Hawai’i Review of Books.