Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. This week we speak with comedian and first-time author Youngmi Mayer, whose new memoir “I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying” chronicles her life as a Korean American grappling with identity, trauma, history — and hilarity. Mayer writes about how her mother learned English largely because she grew besotted with Bee Gees lead singer …
Laughter was a lifeline in childhood, comedian Youngmi Mayer shares in memoir JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Comedian, writer and podcast host Youngmi Mayer has gone viral for her ironic jokes about race like this one from TikTok. And even though I'm, like, Asian and I grew up in Korea, I've heard a lot of, like, Asian Americans talking about this, whether …
CNN — This year had big shoes to fill after 2020’s protests sparked by the high-profile killings of Black people opened the floodgates on how racism manifests in America. Resistance ‘F Your Water Fountain’ Hall of Fame Series In its second year, “Resistance” is back and stronger than ever with some of the best storytelling about, well, resistance. In the …
The massively popular survivalist Korean-drama Squid Game is all everyone is talking about since its release on September 17. She began her tweet with, ““Not to sound snobby but I’m fluent in Korean and I watched squid game with English subtitles and if you don’t understand Korean you didn’t really watch the same show. translation is extremely important.” Read: Squid …
