My latest story "Please Be Patient, Student Driver" is out now in
@TheSunMagazine
!! It's about getting your driver's license, high school house parties, and militarism in Hawaiʻi. Thank you to my editor
@StaciKleinmaier
and everyone at The Sun 🚗🚗
Now is a good time as any to say DON’T TRAVEL TO HAWAI‘I or plan a vacation this summer!!
Everyone is being asked to voluntarily conserve 10% water because the Navy poisoned our aquifer with JET FUEL. And yet water usage is still going up slightly.
Your vacation is possible because the same Navy that is poisoning our water today illegally overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai'i. Tourism and US military occupation go hand in hand.
Travel is expected to increase with easing of Covid restrictions. Visitors will only drive up water usage and overwhelm our system.
We are already facing dryer weather and a hotter summer, w/ potential mandatory water usage restrictions going into effect.
Just signed my contract: the Korean translation rights to NUCLEAR FAMILY have sold!!! My book will be published in South Korea by Wisdom House!
This has been a longtime dream/hope of mine. My family can finally read my work in a few years omg 😭😭
A dream to be here!! NUCLEAR FAMILY is longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel. Grateful to be included alongside
@anarasong
@jessaminechan
@SequoiaN
and these fellow writers. Thank you
@PENamerica
& judges, and congrats to all longlisters 🎉🎉🎉
CW: being outed
So I had to come out to my sister and parents after they found my Twitter 🙃🤡!!
To hear my sister say that she loves and accepts me over the phone, while my mom is audibly sobbing in the background, was a lot. Feeling very overwhelmed and vulnerable 😓
Some big news: my debut novel will be published by
@CounterpointLLC
!!! 😭 Forever grateful to my agent
@dani_bukie
, whose support & guidance made everything possible, and to
@jennyoalton
for believing in this book 🥳 😊
It's pub day for NUCLEAR FAMILY, and I woke up to this rave review in
@nytimesbooks
!!! 😭🥳
@CounterpointLLC
Thank you so much,
@AskMateo
, for seeing this book with such grace, joy, and care. This means the world. 🙏❤️
Achievement unlocked: As I was walking to my seat on the plane ride home, I saw someone with a copy of NUCLEAR FAMILY. I was like “Hey, I’m the author of that book!”
Signed it for them in baggage claim and we chatted. So grateful for these kind of moments.
This week the Korean translation of NUCLEAR FAMILY was published!! I've been dreaming of this day, and I'm so grateful to
@wisdomhousebook
for championing this book and bringing it to Korean readers. My umma is so proud and excited 😭♥️
For
@NYTmag
, I wrote about ghosts, family secrets, and haunting. It's a story of how we feed our ancestors and how we live in memory of our loved ones who've passed. ❤️
Writing my first essay in forever. How do you not just sit there and cry while trying to compose each sentence? 😭 Nothing but respect & admiration for the non-fiction writers out there ❤️
My debut novel came out last month. I’d like to give away five copies of NUCLEAR FAMILY to up-and-coming Korean American writers! ✨✨
What’s your fave recent read by a Korean Am writer? One you’re most anticipating to be released? First five to respond/share will be selected!
My debut novel has a cover!!! ❤️ Big thank you to
@CounterpointLLC
💛 Will share links/preorder info soon!
🧡💚 ARCs available in August 💙💜
🎀NUCLEAR FAMILY is out June 7, 2022 🎀
Looks like I’ll really be teaching a course at UCLA this upcoming spring quarter in the Asian American studies dept!!! It’s on US-Korea relations. Here’s a rough draft of the course description. Still lots of prep to do 😱
OMG. 😭😭 I’m blown away that NUCLEAR FAMILY is a
@nytimesbooks
editors’ choice!!
Grateful to everyone whose read or picked up a copy of my book. Thank you for the love ❤️
I'm incredibly grateful to be chosen for
@nationalbook
's 5 under 35 award by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi. I'm so honored and inspired to be among such brilliant company! Thank you for your work 🎉✨✨
Announcing the 2022 5 Under 35 honorees! We are delighted to honor these five debut fiction writers whose work promises to leave a lasting impression on the literary landscape. |
@vulture
ARCs have arrived 🥺😊 My book is making its way into the world! Coming June next year. Book/media people, please let us know if you’d like a copy—thank you 🙏🏼🙏🏼
@CounterpointLLC
@mfishmann
First week teaching as Visiting Assistant Professor done, started writing my next novel (!!), and just got a short story acceptance in an amazing mag, which will be my first story publication since 2020 OMG. It's from my story collection, and I can't wait to share it 👀
@hanjoseph
Speaking of Nuclear Family,
@alexanderchee
has called it “One of the most original novels I’ve read in the last decade." Forthcoming June 2022!
My book launch was so beautiful and full of love. 😭🥰❤️ It felt absolutely amazing to bring this book home and to celebrate with so many dear friends & family. Thank you
@anjoliroy
for this blessing of an evening.
@CounterpointLLC
❤️
⭐️ Starred review ⭐️ from
@PublishersWkly
for NUCLEAR FAMILY (!!!), which they call “a smashing debut,” “sharply hilarious,” and “a master class from a brilliant new voice.” I’m beyond happy and excited to see this day 😭☺️😎
My Korean parents are still struggling to understand, but I am proud being me right now. I love my sister so much for being the first of my family to see me ❤️☺️🥳
Some big news: my debut novel will be published by
@CounterpointLLC
!!! 😭 Forever grateful to my agent
@dani_bukie
, whose support & guidance made everything possible, and to
@jennyoalton
for believing in this book 🥳 😊
We're now three months out until the publication of NUCLEAR FAMILY (June 7)!! Here's the final jacket. I still can't get over what it means to have this cover & these words to grace this debut 😍
Preorder here:
One of the best novels I’ve ever read.
BESTIARY by
@k_mingchang
rewired my brain!!! Truly magic. So inspired, impressed, and moved by this book, so much of which I’ll never forget ❤️
I am so happy to be living in a world where these books by
@EmilyYoon
and
@fannychoir
are with us. As a Korean writer it’s a dream to encounter so many heroes, so many people to look up to 😭
It's been one year since the publication of my debut novel, NUCLEAR FAMILY!! What a journey it's been. Thank you so much to everyone who's read and supported this book.
The paperback comes out on June 20, and I'm excited to have my launch at
@yuandmebooks
in a few weeks. ♥️
From Kapūkaki (Red Hill) to Guam, the US military industrial complex continues to poison and threaten the most precious and irreplaceable natural resources in order to fuel and practice war. No more.
The US military is building a massive firing range complex over the Northern Guam Lens Aquifer, which provides our island with ~85% of its fresh drinking water. Up to 6.7 million lead bullets will be fired over the aquifer each year, threatening this water source.
#WorldWaterDay
.
CURSED BUNNY had me entranced, unsettled, & astounded with each story. This book rocked me to the core; a lot of its images/moments will haunt me the rest of my life!! 😈 Huge fan of Bora Chung now. Thank you
@AntonHur
!! 🐰🙏🏼 Korean fiction in translation truly never misses.
My new short story, "Slime" is out now in
@The_Rumpus
!! It's an excerpt from my story collection. I watched a lot of slime tutorials for this one.
Big thank you to
@reenashah
for being the most amazing editor!
This is the best book of the year for me. So much love and beauty here, a way to save and language our lives by listening to “the whisper of another worldview.”
@julian_aguon
expands my imagination and heart. This book nourishes the soul of the world.
The last stop on book tour was a dreamy and beautiful evening at
@skylightbooks
. A blessing to be in convo with literary pal
@gojeanfraziergo
. Had to bring out the suit I wore to the NBF ceremony for this one.
NUCLEAR FAMILY is out now ✌🏼❤️
Today I gave my sister my personal ARC. Wrote her a note on this page. We haven’t seen each other in years. Tears all around. I’ve been dreaming of this day 😭❤️
I’m moving to LA on 8/14 and my halmoni isn’t taking it too well 😓 She raised me while my parents stayed in Seoul to work. Every time I visit now she busts out the photo album:
So happy to have a new story out with
@CatapultStory
!!! It's about Jacob Cho, a character from my novel—being raised in church, wrestling, crushes & bullies.
Shoutout to
@saehawon
for their brilliance and guidance making this all the better!
My maternal grandmother in Korea just passed away. I am heartbroken and wish I could grieve with my family there. The last time I saw her was in 2018. She often asked about me and how I’ve been doing. 💔💔💔
For
@lithub
, I wrote about Korean plate lunch restaurants & meat jun, a dish unique to the Korean diaspora in Hawaiʻi.
Only one more day until the publication of NUCLEAR FAMILY!!
Excited to announce that I’m going to be the Distinguished Writer in Residence (Visiting Assistant Professor) at
@UHMCreatWrit
next Spring 2023 semester!!!
I can't wait to teach again, read amazing things, talk stories and novels &&&!! Will def ask for some recs soon 🙏🙏
My letter to the editor on the need to shut down Red Hill fuel tanks was published in today's
@StarAdvertiser
.
Grateful to be working with folks at
@hawaiipandj
and
@sierraclubhi
on this urgent issue.
We're extremely proud to congratulate
@hanjoseph
on his debut novel NUCLEAR FAMILY being chosen as an
#indiesintroduce
selection by booksellers of
@ABAbook
!
See the exciting full list of selections here:
Excited to see the forthcoming anthology, INDIGENOUS PACIFIC ISLAND ECO-LITERATURES ft. in
@TheCut
for an
#AAPI
reading list!
I also want to highlight the amazing work of these editors, whose poetry, activism, and teaching are so inspiring! Thread 🧵:
🚨BREAKING🚨 The U.S. Navy confirmed it will comply with the Department of Health order to turn in a plan within 30 days outlining how they plan to REMOVE the hundreds of millions of gallons of fuel still stored in the Red Hill facility!
Korean short stories in translation are my new favorite thing. I've been sleeping on them forever, but no more!!! BLUEBEARD'S FIRST WIFE blew my mind. Biggest shout out to translators and
@JanetHong333
🙌🙌🙌
I didn’t publish anything this year, but I do have a book coming out in June 2022!
If you would consider pre-ordering NUCLEAR FAMILY this holiday, that would be the best present and mean so much 😬❤️
“Nuclear Family is a world unto itself . . . immersing readers in a narrative whose questions of family, borders, queerness, and forgiveness constantly surprises and astounds.” —Bryan Washington
Joseph Han's astounding debut is available for preorder now!
Will be in NYC for the first time in early June! Only for a few days to catch the NBF ceremony, & then the following week is pub day! 🥳😵💫
Nervous, excited, etc. but looking forward to meeting my agent IRL and more! Especially want to eat Korean food & check out Mari...
Every year I look forward to reading new books by Korean/Korean diaspora writers ❤️
They have finally arrived 🙏🏼😭 Still waiting on my copy of CURSED BUNNY🐰 My reading brain is back, my heart is full seeing these, and I’m HYPED✨✨
I’ve been processing this all weekend😭 A thing you dream about. Honored and excited to be featured by
@PublishersWkly
as a Writer to Watch with this spectacular group! ✨✨Thank you
@DavidVarno
.
It’s getting realer by the day. You can now preorder NUCLEAR FAMILY!!!
Also, if you still need to get your hands on an ARC, please get in touch! ❤️
@CounterpointLLC
@mfishmann
My debut novel has a cover!!! ❤️ Big thank you to
@CounterpointLLC
💛 Will share links/preorder info soon!
🧡💚 ARCs available in August 💙💜
🎀NUCLEAR FAMILY is out June 7, 2022 🎀
My short story "Ten Thousand Years" is out now!
It's about the Japanese colonial period in Korea, labor migration to Sakhalin island, and diasporic Koreans who wish to return to the peninsula.
Gratitude and love to
@platypuspress
for publishing this story 💙
I'm so happy to see
@minyoungleeis
's beautiful review of NUCLEAR FAMILY selected as one of
@lithub
's best book reviews of 2022!! Her words moved me beyond measure. Thank you
@adamm0rgan
♥️🥳
What a night ✨✨Thank you
@nationalbook
and Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi for this incredible honor. Congrats to all the 2021+2022 honorees!! It was so wonderful to meet and celebrate together 🎉🎉
"Joseph Han’s heartfelt and hilarious novel is so well executed, so self-assured, that it’s hard to believe it’s a debut."
What a way to close a whirlwind of a pub month! I'm in awe to be among such writers. 🌟🌟 Thank you
@NPR
and
@michaelschaub
! ♥️
"A just and lasting peace is possible in Korea but only if we build it ourselves, not on the U.S.’s terms."
So much more I couldn't fit to quote here. From this amazing piece ❤️❤️❤️
The incomparable
@mnj_b
and I wrote a thing for
@truthout
Dems across the spectrum have reflexively dismissed current US engagement with the DPRK. As
@nodutdol
members, we call on everyone to reconsider this stance in light of Korea’s history & present
Thank you,
@nodutdol
, for your solidarity w/
@oahuWP
& your advocacy: for peace and genuine security over warmongering and fear; protecting life and land over violence and desecration.
The US Navy has leaked jet fuel into Oahu’s drinking water for decades. US imperialism is a threat to water and life everywhere.
Solidarity to the struggle to
#ShutDownRedHill
and decolonize Hawai’i. Follow
@oahuWP
to stay up to date.
Well over 100 million gallons of fuel STILL REMAINS a mere 100 feet above Oʻahu’s primary drinking water supply.
This cannot go any longer. We cannot wait until this catastrophe worsens—for this to happen again.
#ShutDownRedHill
The US Navy knew. Our representatives knew. The Chamber of Commerce knew. We tried to warn them about the leaking Red Hill Fuel Facility for years - but they ignored us.
There's still time to stop the worst from happening. But it's going to take ALL of us to
#ShutDownRedHill
.
Turned 31 today! Grateful to be here and for NUCLEAR FAMILY being out in the world. The kindness around the book has meant so much. Thank you!! If you haven’t gotten a copy, this would be the best birthday gift! 😌🙏🏼🤙🏼❤️
Happy Korean American day!! Big thank you to
@The_Millions
and
@lydiakiesling
🙏🏼❤️. It also happens to be the anniversary of the 2018 false missile alert. Per both occasions, all I’ll say is demilitarize Hawai‘i and end the Korean War!!!
📣 Attention, readers! 📣 The Great First-Half 2022 Book Preview is here, with the hope that it can, in some small measure, act as a balm, an escape, a distraction, a source of pleasure, a reason for hope, a source of light in the darkness.
For this wondrous book by
@thisisEJKoh
, I feel grateful and alive. I can’t recommend this memoir enough for what it teaches about magnanimity, being a life, joy as a practice—giving relief to the past.
“Overlapping memory always longs for return, the return of memory.”
I’ll be keeping DMZ COLONY by
@DonMeeChoi
close on my desk for a long time—to return to again and again. Both this book and HARDLY WAR are next-level.
Picked up my diploma! Sure, I’m proud of this degree, and so grateful for the people I got to learn with and from, but I am ashamed of this institution, the BOR, and President Lassner for continuing to support TMT.
Happening tomorrow! Super grateful to
@aaww
for hosting this virtual event for NUCLEAR FAMILY, where I’ll be in conversation w/
@crystalhanak
!! ✨✨
A dream event. Come thru for the Korean Am excellence. Thank you
@sea_swallowed
for organizing!
RSVP here:
Having lived in LA for two years & visited this site constantly for updates while trying to finish my novel during the pandemic…to come back with this wonderful review in
@latimesbooks
feels truly special.
@CounterpointLLC
Thank you
@TheBookMaven
🙏🏼❤️