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Dear Someone: On Asian-American Writers and Letters as Storytelling
1. I’ve recently noticed a spate of work by Asian-American authors in epistolary form. Correlation is not causation, and there may be nothing to this trend other than a cluster of coincidence. But...
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A Year in Reading: Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Every year is a great year for reading; 2019 was no exception. One of my favorites this year was Helen Phillips’s The Need—part parenting book, part horror, part thriller, part literary...
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A Project of Defiance: The Millions Interviews C Pam Zhang
C Pam Zhang’s first novel, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a thrilling, lyrical take on the harsh and beautiful landscapes of the American West, and its muscular writing shows that even these...
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What the Literature About Contemporary Korean Women’s Lives Illuminates About...
There was an infamous flasher who lurked around the school gate. He was a local who’d been showing up at the same time and place for years…On cloudy days, he would appear at the empty lot that directly...
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Seeing the World More Clearly: The Millions Interviews Maggie Smith
I first met poet Maggie Smith when we were both in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. I was born and raised in the Midwest and tend to seek out fellow Midwesterners—I would say...
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The current Internet-fueled maelstrom ignited by the article “Who Is the Bad Art Friend?”—about two writers and the putative ownership of a “kidney story:” for one writer it was a lived experience; for...
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At about the time, as a child, I learned my parents could die at any minute (and so could I, but that was beside the point), I became obsessed with time, especially since I learned it passes. And that...
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American Survival: The Millions Interviews Jung Yun
Too often, the image of the Midwest is blue-eyed white people with Peter-Jennings accents or white people sitting on tractors in well-worn overalls. Despite the population’s increasing diversity,...
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From Cover to Cover: On the Pigeonholes of Publishing
I’m proud of being a writer, of being a woman. But I’m not sure how I feel about the category of “woman writer.” Am I also a writer of “women’s fiction” even when my protagonists are male? The woman...
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Life Beyond Your Four Walls: The Millions Interviews Jillian Medoff
Jillian Medoff‘s When We Were Bright and Beautiful is a New York novel of a distinct period. At the novel’s center is the uber-rich Quinn family. On the outside, the Quinns seem to have it all—money,...
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