msmagazine / February 03, 2020

The Feminist Know-It-All: You know her. You can’t stand her. Good thing she’s not here! Instead, this column by gender and women’s studies librarian Karla Strand will amplify stories of the creation, access, use and preservation of knowledge by women and girls around the world; share innovative projects and initiatives that focus on information, literacies, libraries and more; and, of course, talk about all of the books.

bookriot / February 07, 2020

INDIE PRESS ROUND-UP: FEBRUARY NEW RELEASES AND MORE I’m excited about the independent press books I have to share with you this month! Independent presses are putting out so many important books for our times. I didn’t plan this, but I ended up reading two books about Iran that explore key moments in the nation’s history and explore how people survive in chaotic times.

Glamours / March 17, 2020

The last Roaring Twenties gave us Agatha Christie's first novel, Virginia Woolf's first best-seller, and a little novel called The Great Gatsby. With the books on this list, it seems 2020 will kick off a decade in literature that's just as spectacular.

bookriot / January 13, 2020

Start the year off right with Book Riot’s Most Anticipated Books of 2020, our round-up of the most exciting new releases of the year. Preorder, add ’em to your TBR, and shout these titles from the rooftops!

International Examiner / February 25, 2020

b, Book, and Me, Kim Sagwa’s fourth novel, gives a scathing look at South Korean society through the eyes of two middle school girls, b and Rang Hong. Although they are young adolescents, they both struggle with anger, fear and loneliness as they grapple with problems that are out of their control in a country that is indifferent to their suffering.

bookriot / March 02, 2020

If you loved the critically acclaimed and astonishing film Parasite—directed by Bong Joon-ho, with a screenplay cowritten by Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won—and you’re looking for more great Korean artistry to scratch that itch, look no further than the incredible books in translation coming out of South Korea right now. Many of these novels have themes similar to the ones explored in Parasite, some capture the tone and mood of the film, and others feel quite different but have the genius, the same ingenuity of Parasite.

Asia Media international / June 10, 2020

So says Kim Sagwa, author of four acclaimed novels and two short story collections, who knows something about adolescent angst.  This pre-eminent South Korean literary star, dubbed by some the voice of a generation, was once a high-school drop-out. For all her adult success, Kim Sagwa, now 36, who graduated in 2009 from the Korean National University of the Arts, cannot, and will not, abandon the theme of adolescent angst.  This is the heart and tortured soul of her curiously titled 2011 novel ‘b, Book and Me’, just translated into English early this year by Sunjhee Jeong (Two Lines Press, in arrangement with Changbi Publishers, Inc.).

International Examiner / October 09, 2018

Introduction of Kim Sagwa's English translation of

the Stranger / -

Kim Sagwa is a rising young South Korean writer who's won multiple awards and was granted a three-year residency in the USA as an "Alien of Extraordinary Ability in the Arts."   Her new novel, Mina, is about a frantic teenager driven to distraction by pressures of school and society.   She'll be joined by Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton, her translators, as well as local poet Don Mee Choi.

Time Out_SAN FRANCISCO / August 20, 2018

The South Korean author (who has been compared to Jack Kerouac) comes to Litquake on behalf of her novel, Mina, as part of Litquake’s Words Around the World international series at Swedish American Hall on October 13.