Category Archives: author’s own
In My Book Bag This Week – August 12
Mike Albo’s hilarious tell-all roman-a-clef of life as a freelance writer, The Junket. Get it. For weeks now I’ve had a galley for The Stranger’s Child, by Alan Hollinghurst. I love it. Don’t you want me to review it? Yes … Continue reading
Filed under author's own, books, fiction, Korean American, novels
My Hedge Witch Chronicles
This week I published a review for Lev Grossman’s The Magician King over at NPR, and then followed up with an essay at the Morning News of me, well, wanting to be a Magician King, though I think, on reading … Continue reading
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Fanboy
Over at the Morning News, my new essay “Fanboy” is up. The artwork here is a beautiful illustration commissioned from an artist by the name of Katie Turner. This is an essay that began about a year ago in a comic … Continue reading
Filed under author's own, Koreanish, letters from away, politics, travel
My Glee Madonna Episode Nationals in New York Fantasy League Fan Mix.
I’m not much of a musical theater person. I do not normally love live theater, either. I apparently like production values, though, as all the musicals I do love are films. Elvis musicals, for example, I have loved since I … Continue reading
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Sex and Salter at the Paris Review Daily
The Paris Review is giving James Salter their Hadada Prize this year, and to honor him they published a series of essays on Salter’s work by Jhumpa Lahiri, Geoff Dyer, Porochista Khakpour, Ian Crouch and others. Mine, “Sex and Salter”, … Continue reading
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On Writing This Blog As An Unfinished Book
When Kyle Minor at HTMLGiant wrote about reading this blog as a book two weeks ago, I decided to do a little of it myself to see what I could see. What I saw, interestingly, was not what I thought … Continue reading
Filed under animal savagery, apocalypse, author's own, Koreanish
On Reading This Blog As An Unfinished Book
For those arriving from Kyle Minor’s post at HTMLGiant on how to read this blog as a book that hasn’t been finished yet, page 1 is here. If you’d like to read it front to back, that is, instead of … Continue reading
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UMF Reading Notice
Google alerts has been providing me with notices appearing in several papers in Maine that I am giving a reading this coming February at the University of Maine, Farmington. This is a publicity mistake: the correct date is March 24th.
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My Next Move
One winter, I moved to Brooklyn to figure myself out. I was escaping a situation I didn’t understand, by which I mean a job and a lover and an apartment that when they were all together left no place for … Continue reading
Filed under author's own, fiction, fiction break
Fear of the World
If I have a religion, it is probably bibliomancy, the practice of flipping books open at random and reading from the quote I find. Just now: Fear of the world produces crystals in writing. One seeks the faultless, crystallized phrases, … Continue reading
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