Monthly Archives: March 2009
Hari Kunzru and Porochista Khakpour at the AAWW
My friend Porochista will be reading at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York with Hari Kunzru, who I do not know, but who I’m sure is likewise charming. And whose work I admire enormously also. If you’re in … Continue reading
Filed under fiction, fiction break, novels
Alexander Chee on Granta.com
John Freeman at Granta invited me to be one of the writers contributing short memoirs of their fathers, over at Granta.com. The web pieces are a supplement to the Fathers issue in the print edition, and it’s a fascinating series, … Continue reading
Filed under author's own, Koreanish
Most of What I Like to Do Is Indoors
1. Canada has more comics than we do, it occurs to me, as I walk through The Beguiling in Toronto. It is the best comics shop in Toronto, and perhaps in all of Canada. I pause to admire what appears … Continue reading
Filed under letters to no one in particular, travel, what is right with us
