In honor of Lunar New Year, I reading this fantastic book on Eastern storytelling methods (highly recommend) and drinking a Vietnamese coffee/tea pour-over from @coppercowcoffee which is quite good, as well ☕️
#SpringSummerAsteroidBird #kishotenketsu @henrylienauthor.bsky.social #lny #chinesenewyear

It continues to teach me lessons, including acceptance of the bird poop marring my beautiful scroll.

Love,

Henry
@wwnorton.com
#SpringSummerAsteroidBird #kishotenketsu #BookTok #WabiSabi #kintsugi

HAPPY NEW YEAR NEWS
Oh, hey, that’s nifty. @nextbigidea.bsky.social just selected #SpringSummerAsteroidBird (@wwnorton.com) as one of its six pix of 2025.
Love,
Henry
nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/nex...

BATCH-DUMP!
Ojai there, could you just hold this bag open for me while I dump a bunch of photos I forgot to post over the past year? Thnxurthebest.
Love,
Henry
#SpringSummerAsteroidBird #PeasproutChen

BAIT FOR AN INTROVERT
This guy does a lot of public speaking but he’s actually an intense introvert. But you know what bait can tempt him out? Talking and singing about his @wwnorton.com book #SpringSummerAsteroidBird and paneling with fine writers at @seattlein2025.org. Sked ⬇️.
Love,
Him
#Worldcon

I hope you can make it.
Love,
Henry
#SpringSummerAsteroidBird #BaltimorePublicLibraries #Libraries #aapiheritagemonth

No NYC busking permit laws were broken when I rehearsed for my #HouseOfSpeakeasy event at #JoesPub in connection with #SpringSummerAsteroidBird
cuz didn’t lay out hat to ask for money, and played to enrapt juvenile Union Square squirrel. Plus, I’m back in CA so just try to extradite me.
Love,
Henry

THEY LAUGHED, THEY CRIED
Joyous and heartfelt evening performing at @joespub.bsky.social for the #houseofspeakeasy event in connection with #SpringSummerAsteroidBird (@wwnorton.bsky.social). Audience members told me they laughed and cried. My heart is very full and I feel fully alive.
Love,
Henry

Thanks to @pw.org for letting me share this in connection with #SpringSummerAsteroidBird (@wwnorton.bsky.social). Non-linear stories often feel truer to reality. We wouldn’t need stories to reflect reality better if we didn’t so often ask for reality to reflect stories. Link below.
Love,
Henry

THE JOY OF HOLDING BACK
@pw.org commissioned me to write this essay about the East Asian four-act structure, in connection with my new book from @wwnorton.bsky.social #SpringSummerAsteroidBird.
Love,
Henry
www.pw.org/content/the_...

@literaryhub.bsky.social commissioned me to write this article about the radical handling of children’s self-esteem in #HayaoMiyazaki films. Thanks to @wwnorton.bsky.social for arranging this in connection with my new book (dedicated to Miyazaki!) #SpringSummerAsteroidBird.
Love,
Henry

The #NextBigIdeaClub, a non-fiction book club curated by Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink, invited me to contribute to their Book Bites series re #SpringSummerAsteroidBird (selected as Must Read Book and among 25 Highly Anticipated Books to Read in 2025). Link below.

L.A. folks, I’m coming at you live and in glorious 3D at these bookstore events in #Pasadena and #DTLA promoting #SpringSummerAsteroidBird. DTLA co-event with beloved author and writing instructor #SarahSelecky.
March 15 2 pm #VromansBookstore
March 23 3 pm #AuditoriumBooks
Links below.

I’ll be performing at
#HouseOfSpeakeasy’s literary cabaret at @JoesPub.bsky.social at the #PublicTheater in NY on March 18.

I’ll be talking about my new book #SpringSummerAsteroidBird from @wwnorton.bsky.social and performing the theme song.

publictheater.org/productions/...

Love,

Henry

SIX GOOD THINGS
1. Working on an essay about Hayao Miyazaki films and alternate concepts of self-esteem;
2. For [prominent literary magazine];
3. Set up by my supernaturally capable publicists at @w.w.norton;
4. In connection with my new book #SpringSummerAsteroidBird;