Monthly Archives: October 2015
Here, There, and Everywhere
A flurry of October events that has left me a bit discombobulated but ever so satisfied… The month began with a return to the hometown of my adulthood—Chicago. I’d imagined a homecoming similar to Bette Midler’s in “The Rose”—I would get up to do a reading, start singing “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” and collapse (cue plaintive piano […]
Asian American Literature Fans
James Sie’s Still Live Las Vegas stands tall alongside a number of other glorious debuts… Sie’s novel is a fascinating hybrid of family dysfunction, graphic narrative, and the traditional bildungsroman.
LA Review of Books Podcast
Colin Marshall gives an in-depth interview with illustrator Sungyoon Choi and me about working on the novel together.
Electric Literature— “The Magic Behind the Artifice”
An interview by Heather Scott Partington for Electric Literature.