Skylight Books: They Call Us Bruce Podcast 300th Episode Taping!

Come celebrate the release of Water Mirror Echo and the 300th episode of They Call Us Bruce podcast in this special taping with Jeff Yang and Phil Yu!

Hosted by Peabody Award-winning blogger behind the pioneering Angry Asian Man blog Phil Yu and acclaimed culture critic and New York Times bestselling author Jeff Yang, THEY CALL US BRUCE is “an unfiltered conversation about what’s happening in Asian America.” Since 2017, the weekly podcast has covered everything from parenting to pop culture to politics, and brought on as guests a wide swath of notable Asian American personalities in entertainment, media, the arts, government, sports and business: Academy Award-winning actors and directors. Pulitzer Prize winning poets and playwrights. Bestselling authors and graphic novelists. Olympians and rock stars and Crazy Rich Asians and scream queens and jedi masters and superheroes.

This event is a special taping of their landmark 300th episode!

JEFF YANG has been observing, exploring, and writing about the Asian American community for over thirty years. He launched one of the first Asian American national magazines, A.Magazine, in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, and now writes for The Guardian and Washington Post and can be heard regularly as part of NPR’s culture critic panel on Pop Culture Happy Hour. Among his bestselling books are Jackie Chan’s bestselling memoir I Am Jackie Chan; Once Upon a Time in China; and Eastern Standard Time, and most recently the New York Times bestselling RISE (cowritten with Phil Yu and Philip Wang) and The Golden Screen: The Movies That Made Asian America. He’s currently writing a reimagined Monkey King graphic novel for the new prestige publisher The Lab and working with screen legend James Hong on Hong’s forthcoming memoir, due out from Simon & Schuster in 2026. His first movie as screenwriter, A Great Divide, can currently be seen on Amazon Video, and the first season of the food journey show he developed and sold along with his son, actor Hudson Yang, Crash Course Cuisine, can now be seen on Hulu and NatGeo. He lives in Los Angeles.

PHIL YU is an award-winning writer, speaker, and host best known as the founder/editor of the influential Asian American news and culture blog Angry Asian Man. Yu’s commentary, known for mixing humor with criticism, has been featured in major publications like The New York Times, National Public Radio, CNN, MSNBC, Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly and others. He is co-author, with Jeff Yang and Philip Wang, of the New York Times Best Seller book RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now, and was the recipient of Peabody Awards’ 2022 Trailblazer Award. He is co-host of Squid Game: The Official Podcast for Netflix, and appears in the documentaries Beam Me Up Sulu, White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, The Claudia Kishi Club and Linsanity.

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