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gritLit: Pop Culture: Identity, Belonging, and Female Rage

  • Homewood Suites by Hilton Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 40 Bay St S, Hamilton, ON L8P 0B3 (map)

Jen Sookfong Lee’s wonderfully intimate memoir Superfan: How Pop Culture Changed My Life explores how celebrity culture can offer both an escape from and mirror to our own reality. Lee sits down online with music journalist Melody Lau to talk about the surprising ways pop culture icons like Princess Diana, Bob Ross, Amy Tan and Kris Jenner helped her forge her own identity as an Asian woman, a single mother, and a writer.