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Ministry of Moral Panic
Epigram Books
$20.20 SGD in bookstores across Singapore, or at Kinokuniya's webstore. Overseas buyers shoot an email here.
“Amanda Lee Koe’’s melancholic, often heartbreaking tales of urban malaise are elegies of individual yearnings. At her best, tides of words flow like movements of music, their cadences aspiring towards the magic of poetry. In this debut collection, the author has distinguished herself as a competent, lyrical raconteur.”—Quarterly Literary Review Singapore
“Amanda Lee Koe is mesmerising. Her characters sleepwalk out of a Haruki Murakami novel, across the forgotten set of a Wong Kar-wai film, before nestling in a subway with warm paninis of lust, hysteria, anomie, dissonance and fresh lettuce. One of the finest writers in her generation.”—DAREN SHIAU, author of Heartland
Epigram Books
$20.20 SGD in bookstores across Singapore, or at Kinokuniya's webstore. Overseas buyers shoot an email here.
“Amanda Lee Koe’’s melancholic, often heartbreaking tales of urban malaise are elegies of individual yearnings. At her best, tides of words flow like movements of music, their cadences aspiring towards the magic of poetry. In this debut collection, the author has distinguished herself as a competent, lyrical raconteur.”—Quarterly Literary Review Singapore
“Amanda Lee Koe is mesmerising. Her characters sleepwalk out of a Haruki Murakami novel, across the forgotten set of a Wong Kar-wai film, before nestling in a subway with warm paninis of lust, hysteria, anomie, dissonance and fresh lettuce. One of the finest writers in her generation.”—DAREN SHIAU, author of Heartland
Bellevue Literary Review
Bellevue Literary Press
Fall 2013 issue (feat. Flamingo Valley)
$12 USD in all good American bookshops, or one year subscription $20 USD.
"This issue of the Bellevue Literary Review is subtitled “A Mosaic of Voices” and focuses on how culture intersects with health, illness, and healing. The diversity of manuscript submissions we received was staggering and it was both a delight and a challenge to winnow the pile down to what could fit between these two covers.
(...) Sometimes cultures jostle each other, in love and in illness, as happens between a Malay crooner and the Chinese daughter of a Singaporean pub owner in Amanda Lee Koe’s story “Flamingo Valley.” The Indian protagonist of Prasad Bodas’s story, “Mr. Abhyankar Learns to Drop Bombs,” is bewildered by the black moods of his Americanized teenaged son."
Bellevue Literary Press
Fall 2013 issue (feat. Flamingo Valley)
$12 USD in all good American bookshops, or one year subscription $20 USD.
"This issue of the Bellevue Literary Review is subtitled “A Mosaic of Voices” and focuses on how culture intersects with health, illness, and healing. The diversity of manuscript submissions we received was staggering and it was both a delight and a challenge to winnow the pile down to what could fit between these two covers.
(...) Sometimes cultures jostle each other, in love and in illness, as happens between a Malay crooner and the Chinese daughter of a Singaporean pub owner in Amanda Lee Koe’s story “Flamingo Valley.” The Indian protagonist of Prasad Bodas’s story, “Mr. Abhyankar Learns to Drop Bombs,” is bewildered by the black moods of his Americanized teenaged son."
Eastern Heathens
Ethos Books
edited by Amanda Lee Koe & Ng Yi-Sheng (feat. Siren)
$23 SGD at Ethos Books' webstore, or in bookstores across Singapore.
"We love Asian folklore. We grew up listening to Chinese legends, Arab fairy tales, Malay ghost stories and Indian sacred epics, and their fabulous images have continued to inhabit our imaginations ever since.
Yet as grown-ups, we’ve sometimes been bugged by the moralistic, simplistic manner in which these fables are often told. What better way to negotiate this than to reinvent our heritage? This collection brings together 14 subversions, reinventions and adaptations of folktales from all across Asia, written by an international crew of authors."
Ethos Books
edited by Amanda Lee Koe & Ng Yi-Sheng (feat. Siren)
$23 SGD at Ethos Books' webstore, or in bookstores across Singapore.
"We love Asian folklore. We grew up listening to Chinese legends, Arab fairy tales, Malay ghost stories and Indian sacred epics, and their fabulous images have continued to inhabit our imaginations ever since.
Yet as grown-ups, we’ve sometimes been bugged by the moralistic, simplistic manner in which these fables are often told. What better way to negotiate this than to reinvent our heritage? This collection brings together 14 subversions, reinventions and adaptations of folktales from all across Asia, written by an international crew of authors."
The Part In The Story Where We Lost Count Of The Days
Art Asia Pacific
$20 USD at Art Asia Pacific's webstore.
"The Part In The Story Where We Lost Count Of The Days is an artist book and monograph that reflects on the artistic practice of Singaporean artist Heman Chong. Acting as both maker of objects and facilitator of situations, Chong’s work sits at the intersection of multiple genres: visual art, performance, writing, installation and science fiction. Through commissioned texts and explanations of Chong’s selected projects, this publication seeks to engage and unravel these categories as well as to highlight their overlapping and circuitous nature. Edited by Pauline J. Yao and designed by H55 in Singapore, The Part In The Story Where We Lost Count Of The Days features new texts by Nav Haq, Ahmad Mashadi, Claudia Pestana, and Tirdad Zolghadr, and an illustrated project index by Amanda Lee Koe. "
Art Asia Pacific
$20 USD at Art Asia Pacific's webstore.
"The Part In The Story Where We Lost Count Of The Days is an artist book and monograph that reflects on the artistic practice of Singaporean artist Heman Chong. Acting as both maker of objects and facilitator of situations, Chong’s work sits at the intersection of multiple genres: visual art, performance, writing, installation and science fiction. Through commissioned texts and explanations of Chong’s selected projects, this publication seeks to engage and unravel these categories as well as to highlight their overlapping and circuitous nature. Edited by Pauline J. Yao and designed by H55 in Singapore, The Part In The Story Where We Lost Count Of The Days features new texts by Nav Haq, Ahmad Mashadi, Claudia Pestana, and Tirdad Zolghadr, and an illustrated project index by Amanda Lee Koe. "
Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One
Epigram Books
edited by Jason Erik Lundberg (feat. Randy's Rotisserie)
$24.90 SGD in bookstores across Singapore
"The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One curates the finest short fiction from Singaporean writers published in 2011 and 2012. This ground-breaking and unique anthology showcases stories that examine various facets of the human condition and the truths that we tell ourselves in order to exist in the everyday. The styles are as varied as the authors, and no two pieces are alike. Here are twenty unique and breathtaking literary insights into the Singaporean psyche, which examine what it means to live in this particular part of the world in this particular time."
Epigram Books
edited by Jason Erik Lundberg (feat. Randy's Rotisserie)
$24.90 SGD in bookstores across Singapore
"The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One curates the finest short fiction from Singaporean writers published in 2011 and 2012. This ground-breaking and unique anthology showcases stories that examine various facets of the human condition and the truths that we tell ourselves in order to exist in the everyday. The styles are as varied as the authors, and no two pieces are alike. Here are twenty unique and breathtaking literary insights into the Singaporean psyche, which examine what it means to live in this particular part of the world in this particular time."
From the Belly of the Cat
Math Paper Press
edited by Stephanie Ye (feat. Laundromat)
$22.00 SGD at Booksactually's webstore, or in bookstores across Singapore.
"Writers and cats have long enjoyed a special affinity, unsurprisingly since both spend much time sitting around and judging people. Discover the Lion City through the eyes of its cats and their humans in From the Belly of the Cat, an anthology of fifteen feline tales by some of the city-state’s most exciting writers and notorious cat sympathisers."
Math Paper Press
edited by Stephanie Ye (feat. Laundromat)
$22.00 SGD at Booksactually's webstore, or in bookstores across Singapore.
"Writers and cats have long enjoyed a special affinity, unsurprisingly since both spend much time sitting around and judging people. Discover the Lion City through the eyes of its cats and their humans in From the Belly of the Cat, an anthology of fifteen feline tales by some of the city-state’s most exciting writers and notorious cat sympathisers."
SIGHTINGS
Selected Readings/Panels
How Many Hats Do You Wear, Singapore Writers Festival, Singapore, 3 November 2013
Hits & Myths, Singapore Writers Festival, Singapore, 2 November 2013
The New Sexuality, Iowa City Book Festival, USA, 12th October 2013
Pawn, Prairie Lights Reading Series, Prairie Lights Bookstore, USA, 6th October 2013
Siren + Myth-making & National Anxiety, Bard Youth College, USA, 2nd October 2013
Is This What They Call Censorship?, Intellectual Freedom Festival, Iowa City Public Library, USA, 26th September 2013
Siren + Myth-making & National Anxiety, International Literature Today, University of Iowa, USA, 16th September 2013
Gaylien: A Night of Queer Sci-Fi Fiction, IndigNation, Select Books, Singapore, August 2013
Eastern Heathens, The Arts House/Kinokuniya Bookstore/Booksactually, Singapore, Feb - August 2013
As Giving Blood, Launch of Corridors, Booksactually, Singapore, July 2013
Roll Your Pretty Eyes, ContraDiction, 72-13, Singapore, Singapore, August 2012
Independent Publishing Roundtable, Goodman Arts Centre, Singapore, June 2012
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Selected Press
Nanda, Akshita, Folklore Reloaded, Straits Times Life, 14 April 2013
Pew, Gwen, The Cool List, TimeOut (Sg), March 2013
Chew, Jonathan, Sg fiction has a lot of catching up to do, Esquire (Sg), December 2012
Tan, Corrie, The Write Way, Straits Times Life, 4 September 2012
Pocket Arts Guide, Raise The Red Lantern, April 2012
Chow, Yian Ping, The arts cast a red light on Geylang, Lianhe Zaobao, 28 April 2012
Yusof, Helmi, Bohemian arts city, The Business Times, 27 April 2012
Hong, Natasha, Zine Queens, Catalog Magazine, July 2012
Lee, Janine, Shophouse Creatives, Female Magazine, June 2012
How Many Hats Do You Wear, Singapore Writers Festival, Singapore, 3 November 2013
Hits & Myths, Singapore Writers Festival, Singapore, 2 November 2013
The New Sexuality, Iowa City Book Festival, USA, 12th October 2013
Pawn, Prairie Lights Reading Series, Prairie Lights Bookstore, USA, 6th October 2013
Siren + Myth-making & National Anxiety, Bard Youth College, USA, 2nd October 2013
Is This What They Call Censorship?, Intellectual Freedom Festival, Iowa City Public Library, USA, 26th September 2013
Siren + Myth-making & National Anxiety, International Literature Today, University of Iowa, USA, 16th September 2013
Gaylien: A Night of Queer Sci-Fi Fiction, IndigNation, Select Books, Singapore, August 2013
Eastern Heathens, The Arts House/Kinokuniya Bookstore/Booksactually, Singapore, Feb - August 2013
As Giving Blood, Launch of Corridors, Booksactually, Singapore, July 2013
Roll Your Pretty Eyes, ContraDiction, 72-13, Singapore, Singapore, August 2012
Independent Publishing Roundtable, Goodman Arts Centre, Singapore, June 2012
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Selected Press
Nanda, Akshita, Folklore Reloaded, Straits Times Life, 14 April 2013
Pew, Gwen, The Cool List, TimeOut (Sg), March 2013
Chew, Jonathan, Sg fiction has a lot of catching up to do, Esquire (Sg), December 2012
Tan, Corrie, The Write Way, Straits Times Life, 4 September 2012
Pocket Arts Guide, Raise The Red Lantern, April 2012
Chow, Yian Ping, The arts cast a red light on Geylang, Lianhe Zaobao, 28 April 2012
Yusof, Helmi, Bohemian arts city, The Business Times, 27 April 2012
Hong, Natasha, Zine Queens, Catalog Magazine, July 2012
Lee, Janine, Shophouse Creatives, Female Magazine, June 2012