This interview is particularly dear to my heart because it deals with the subject of the marginalization of APIA voices within the Western canon, the politics of subverting and deconstructing that very canon for APIA writers (and other writers of color), and also the possibility/problematic of creating an APIA canon.  You can read Karen Tei Yamashita and Celeste Ng's answers to these important and often neglected questions here.