Wesley, if there's one thing this season of still processing is all about, it is realizing

our deepest dreams and hopes and ambitions for the show.

Would you agree?

I'm definitely, I'm going wherever this car that you're driving is going to take me.

So yes.

Well beat, beat, beat, baby, get in because we're going to go read a book together.

This is something we have wanted to do since the beginning of the show, which is invite

our listeners to read a book alongside us and we're finally going to do it.

Yes, we are going to read minor feelings in Asian American reckoning by Kathy Park

Kong.

And I'm excited to do that.

I'm so excited to Kathy Park Kong is an incredible poet, a dynamic essayist, a cultural

critic, this book is part memoir as well.

It's a really incredible examination of what it means to live outside of the racial binary

and the discourse that this country tends to fix it on, which we fix it on as well.

Can I tell you a little bit about where Kathy says the title comes from?

Absolutely.

Okay, I was reading this amazing interview in the Yale Review and here's how Kathy describes

what the framing of minor feelings means.

I was trying to get at the existential core of living in this country and having your

lived reality constantly gaslit by the American public.

What it does to you and how there's no outlet for it.

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