Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Fall Literary Salon: Maxine Hong Kingston, Aimee Liu, Lily Hoang and Pete Hsu (EXPICIT)
Description: Join the incomparable Maxine Hong Kingston, alongside bestselling and award-winning authors Aimee Liu and Pete Hsu, in a riveting conversation moderated by Lily Hoang at Commonwealth Club World Affairs in San Francisco on Thursday, September 11, 2025.
It'll be a beautiful evening of literary readings and discussion about the impact of America’s current politics on marginalized writers, readers, and independent presses. Without NEA and NIH funding, what is the fate of literary diversity in America? What can publishers do to prevent erasure of BIPOC perspectives? What can artists do to defend their legacy and protect the future for ima...