On Monday after work, I felt myself spiraling into depression at the unraveling state of the nation. (An unfortunate byproduct of being so tuned into the news cycle.) So, I called my good friend, an ...

We're rounding out 2025 with some of our favorite conversations we had on the show this year. In this episode, we're revisiting our interview with Jeff Chang, the author of an in-depth biography on ...

In spring 2024, Berkeley author and activist Jeff Chang had just completed the first draft of his Bruce Lee biography, "Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America," when he called in ...

In Water Mirror Echo, the journalist tells the story of actor and martial artist Bruce Lee’s rise to fame alongside the cultural history of Asian America. You write that Lee is “perhaps the most ...

The first step was easy. A book editor, impressed by Jeff Chang‘s acclaimed 2005 cultural history of hip-hop, “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop,” asked if he’d consider writing a book on Bruce Lee, the martial ...

In many walks of life, a combination of recency bias and genuine progress makes it easy to think that the latest thing is also the greatest thing. However, this thought process doesn't apply to the ...