Monthly Archives: March 2010
Alexander Chee at Redivider
An excerpt from my interview over at Redivider with editor Matt Salesses: AC:…I remember when I was a writing student in college feeling like literature was a big food court at the mall, and for being half-white and half-Asian, I … Continue reading
Filed under author's own
I Married Adventure
I sometimes have the urge in seaside towns to just take an apartment, go upstairs and rent it and close the door and write. This place is a little as if I’ve done that. I am in Florida on Manasota … Continue reading
Filed under author's own, letters from away
The Lacuna vs. Fever Chart at The Morning News Tournament of Books
The editors at the Morning News asked me to be one of the judges in this year’s Tournament of Books. Today’s match features Barbara Kingsolver’s The Lacuna against Bill Cotter’s Fever Chart. From my decision: When I first held The … Continue reading
Filed under fiction, literary contests
A Slightly Longer Report
What I Have Been Doing Finished a draft of my second novel, turned it in. Began revising it. Took out third novel draft, re-read it. Read from it twice. I did this because I went to San Francisco twice, to … Continue reading
Filed under ask koreanish, author's own, fiction, fiction prompts, letters to you
A Short Report on How I Am
People ask me how I keep several things going at once, but they keep me going, really, more like friends who are always willing to take walks with the patient, than dogs that need a walk at the same time.
Filed under letters to you
