On Notes from the Edge of Climate Change, hear Kristina Hill, who has been sounding the alarm about water rise in global cities. Listen in: www.kalw.org/show/notes-f... Dive deeper: zentronix.substack.com

Join us for Water Mirror Echo + other special events this AANHPI Month and beyond!  Visit watermirrorecho.net for all the latest info, reg links, and more.  More details and more events to be announced soon! #WaterMirrorEcho

Who gets to tell the stories of Iran and who is silenced?  Join us for an urgent discussion on Iran from two leading voices for change - Behrooz Ghatami & Fatemeh Jamalpour. May 5, 7-9pm PT Tickets for in-person or online viewing: www.baybookfest.org/the-merritt-...

On this day in 1959, Bruce Lee left Hong Kong to return to the US, his birthplace. He was a birthright citizen. But seen as a foreigner, he was expected to *become American*. His 12 years in the US would lead him to become the global hero of the underdog. watermirrorecho.net

On Notes from the Edge of Climate Change, hear indigenous lawyer Julian Aguon on how climate change activists can win.  Listen in: www.kalw.org/show/notes-f... Dive deeper: zentronix.substack.com

Berkeley! 510!  My people!  You know what it is. Join us next weekend at our local branch!  EastWind Books in the house too! May 3, 3pm Tarea Hall Pittman South Branch Berkeley Public Library 1901 Russell Street + MLK  #WaterMirrorEcho

Honored to discuss my new book American Peril w/always brilliant @zentronix.bsky.social Thurs 7pm PDT at City Lights SF & online (w/registration at link). citylights.com/events/scott...

Atlanta! Next week! Water Mirror Echo: A Conversation Jeff Chang + Casey Wong April 24, 5-7pm Emory University Harland Cinema Presented by Emory AAADS Initiative + APIDAA w/ Georgia State University - Asian American Faculty Affinity Group & Dept of Ed Policy Studies #watermirrorecho

LA! This weekend! Join us! LA Times Book Festival Empire of Dreams: The Rebels, Titans, and Icons Who Defined Modern Hollywood 
Saturday, April 18 -- 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Taper Hall 201 Tix: latimes.com/fob See you all there!

New episode! NOTES FROM THE EDGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE  An Earth Day Special  Julian Aguon, Dr. Kristina Hill + Anohni Next Week!  Tue, April 21, 7pm  KALW 91.7 FM in the Bay Area  www.kalw.org/show/notes-f...  Or wherever you get your podcasts!

Some brief thoughts on Artemis II and some new events for the spring! zentronix.substack.com

It’s Mahalo Monday! Mahaloz to Da Shop, the gathering place for Local literati + cool folks in Kaimukī.  A big shout-out too to the Hawai’i International Film Festival, a couple blocks away.  Find them @dashophnl and dashophnl.com!

Proud, honored, and curious about being chosen as 1 of 10 Storytellers in this year’s Curious 100 list by the @ Eames Institute www.eamesinstitute.org/curious-100/... Check out the full list of brilliant #curious100 folks who are changing the world one question at a time here:  www.curious100.org

New York City!  Join Bakari Kitwana + me next Thursday at NYU for a special discussion of #WaterMirrorEcho, Bruce Lee, hip-hop & Black/Asian solidarities. Free! April 9 6-8pm NYU 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Flr Register at the link or: bit.ly/NYUBruce

I’m PSYKED to finally share this convo w/ my homie Jeff Chang @zentronix.bsky.social author & culture strategist extraordinaire & our resident Obi Wan at the Butterfly Lab for Immigrant Narrative Strategy, where we first incubated the MUSLIM FUTURES anthology!

Thursday night! Talking Bruce and Asian America at Cal's J-School with @shereenmarisol.bsky.social !!! Tix: journalism.berkeley.edu/event/author... See you soon!

I got to do a couple very cool interviews for work recently. First, I spoke with @zentronix.bsky.social about Bruce Lee and Asian American identity.

Today marks the 5-month birthday of Water Mirror Echo and our first Mahalo Monday! We’re celebrating @redemmas, the radical worker-owned co-op bookstore and cafe in the heart of Baltimore. Good books, good food, great politics! ✊🏽 Find them @redemmas and redemmas.org! ✊🏽

February 18th was historic. Here are some highlights from the amazing Bruce Lee postage stamp unveiling ceremony here in Seattle.  Big love to Shannon Lee, Linda Lee Cadwell, Sue Ann Kay, Artis Montgomery, the US Postal service staffs, and the extended Lee + Cadwell families!

Professor Shereen Marisol Meraji talks to author @zentronix.bsky.social about “Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America” March 5th @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social. This one's going to be extra. #ucberkeley #bayareanews #BruceLee journalism.berkeley.edu/event/author...

Happy Year of the Fire Horse! The last was 1966, when Bruce Lee began as Kato on the Green Hornet.  At first the producers gave him no lines. Yet soon Kato began to outshine the star.  The lesson is: it could be a rough ride, but stick it out and you’ll find your stride.    Wishing you a great year!

Happy Pub Day to @chuckdpe.bsky.social Proud to celebrate his new book, In The Hour of Chaos: Art & Activism with Public Enemy’s Chuck D!  The fruits of his master class at UCLA, including bracing convos with top hip-hop scholars. Available now everywhere! More info: bit.ly/hourofchaos

#WaterMirrorEcho is being hailed as a breakthrough in audiobook storytelling! Read the whole story at Notes From The Edge: zentronix.substack.com Listen to the Audiobook now at Audible, Spotify, Apple & wherever audiobooks are sold. watermirrorecho.net

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

Another murder by immigration enforcement in my district. I am absolutely horrified that federal agents are targeting and executing our residents instead of protecting them. ICE and CBP must leave Minnesota immediately. Kristi Noem must be impeached. Enough.

Minneapolis.

It was a year. Looking back with gratitude and forward with purpose.  Much more at Substack… open.substack.com/pub/zentronix/ Happy New Year, everyone! #WaterMirrorEcho

On this episode of Edge of Reason, we speak to the artist Firelei Baez and the writer #EdwidgeDanticat about their shared heritage of resistance. New episodes drop every week. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts! Visit our Edge of Reason page: bit.ly/EdgeOfReasonS3

In this special episode of Edge of Reason, Siddhartha Mitter speaks to the artist Maria Berrio about her newest exhibition, Soliloquy of the Wounded Earth. New episodes drop every week. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts! Visit our Edge of Reason page: bit.ly/EdgeOfReasonS3

On Edge of Reason season 3, we speak to the artist Anj Smith & the curator Zoe Whitley about the artist and the world within. New epi drops every week. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts! Visit Edge of Reason: bit.ly/EdgeOfReasonS3 Produced by atlanticrethink + @hauserwirth.bsky.social

In the 3rdseason of our Signal Award-winning podcast, #EdgeofReason, we speak to #Uman + Nicole Dennis Benn about metamorphosis.  New episodes drop every week. Listen now wherever u get your podcasts! Visit our Edge of Reason page: bit.ly/EdgeOfReasonS3 Produced by @atlanticrethink + @hauserwirth

On the 2nd episode of #NotesFromThe Edge, data scientist Dr. Rumman Chowdhury talks about the stakes of the AI debate. Hear her, Karen Hao, and DJ Shadow on big tech and our shared future. Listen at www.kalw.org/show/notes-f... or wherever you get your podcasts!

My autographed copy of @zentronix.bsky.social's new book has arrived...

@djshadow.bsky.social has produced some of the most beautiful music of this or any other century. For Notes from The Edge, we wanted a voice of reason in the current polarized debate over AI.  Listen at www.kalw.org/show/notes-f... or wherever you get your podcasts!

For our 2nd episode of Notes from The Edge, we spoke to tech journalist Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI, one of the most important books of the past decade. Hear Dr. Rumman Chowdhury & also on building ethical technologies & alternative futures! Listen @ kalw.org or wherever you get your podcasts!

Our Signal Award-winning podcast on contemporary artists, Edge of Reason, is back for its third season! New episodes drop every week. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts! Visit our Edge of Reason page: bit.ly/EdgeOfReasonS3 Produced by @atlanticrethink + @hauserwirth #EdgeofReason

#WaterMirrorEcho is on its Northwest swing! Here’s me & HelenRaptis at AMnorthwest. The full clip: bit.ly/AMNWBruce PDX Tonight 7pm - Powell’s Books w/ Walidah Imarisha! SEA Thurs 7pm at Town Hall Seattle w/ Shannon Lee, Doug Palmer + Sue Ann Kay! See you soon!

Celebrating Bruce Lee’s 85th bday all month! Get #WaterMirrorEcho from Bel Canto Books & get a limited-edition art card + bookplate. Get the incredible *Pancho Villa* by Bernard James + Bayani Art! Join us Saturday noon in the LBC Ambitious Ales Stay tuned for more #Bruce85 announcements soon!

Portland! #WaterMirrorEcho comes to you on Tuesday November 11th! Join acclaimed writer/educator/poet Walidah Imarisha + Jeff Chang in conversation at 7pm at @powells.bsky.social on Burnside. It will be a night to remember!

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🐲📕TOMORROW! Don't miss out on hearing Jeff Chang @zentronix.bsky.social and Ursula Liang @ursulaliang.bsky.social in conversation on Bruce Lee at OACC! Eastwind Books will have copies of WATER MIRROR ECHO for sale. #Asian #AsianAmerica #BruceLee #JeffChang #BeLikeWater #OACC

Had a great time chatting with WGNNEWS about Water Mirror Echo. 
It’s wild and a little surreal that this book has already been out in the world for a whole month. Watch the full video www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Mu... #WaterMirrorEcho

The rise of Bruce Lee and the rise of Asian America mirrored each other.    Now Bruce is an icon for everyone fighting for justice all around the world.  This is the last in a ten-episode series, *Ten Ways To See Bruce Lee*. #WaterMirrorEcho is out now! Watch all the videos: watermirrorecho.net

Woke up this morning to news that Water Mirror Echo has been named one of the Top 10 Books of 2025 by Publishers Weekly It’s been a long journey and I sit here overflowing with gratitude. Thank you for reading! #WaterMirrorEcho

What did Bruce Lee really hope to portray of kung fu in his movies? Here’s the fourth of four shorts taken from a conversation I did about #WaterMirrorEcho for @thelavinagency.bsky.social Watch the full-length interview here youtu.be/9hFMl6WhdqM?...

We’re bringing #WaterMirrorEcho home to Oakland Chinatown!  Join us for a conversation w/Jeff Chang + Ursula Liang November 5th 7pm  Oakland Asian Cultural Center  388 9th Street, Suite 290, Oakland, California 94607 Free Register now at: watermirrorecho.net or oacc.cc See you in the Town!

11/13 at 7:30 PM | @zentronix.bsky.social explores Bruce Lee’s enduring impact on Asian American culture with a panel of figures directly impacted by Lee's life, including relatives, former students, and close friends. Presented with Wing Luke Museum. 🎟️ Get tickets: buff.ly/aAPN5ZJ

Bruce Lee’s most famous line is “Be Water.”  But where did it come from and what did it really mean to him?  See the 9th in a ten-episode series, *Ten Ways To See Bruce Lee*. From the new book Water Mirror Echo. Out now.  All the videos are at watermirrorecho.net #WaterMirrorEcho

Celebrating Bruce Lee’s 85th w/BelCantoBooks in the LBC! While supplies last — orders of Water Mirror Echo include signed bookplate + exclusive hand-numbered Bruce Lee art card! Join us Nov 8th w/Dr. Bernard Remollino & ambitious ales Buy + RSVP: belcantobooks.net or watermirrorecho.net

Two celebrated writers of our time together for an unforgettable intergenerational conversation! Open Access: 𝘈 𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 An Intimate Conversation with LAP Literary Fellows Jeff Chang (’23) and Garrett Hongo (93’)! 📚✨ Montalvo Arts Center Wednesday, October 29 - 7pm watermirrorecho.net