Life Beyond Your Four Walls: The Millions Interviews Jillian Medoff
"Once characters start talking, scenes start to take shape."
From Cover to Cover: On the Pigeonholes of Publishing
Before the cover creation process had even begun for 'The Evening Hero,' I requested a Korean book designer.
American Survival: The Millions Interviews Jung Yun
Growing up in an immigrant family, I was taught the value of hard work and pulling myself up by my bootstraps. But what happens when hard work isn’t enough?
A Year in Reading: Marie Myung-Ok Lee
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.
The Good Art Friend
No one actually owns memories, and even these change with time and perspective.
Seeing the World More Clearly: The Millions Interviews Maggie Smith
In order to keep making poems, I have to tune out the static that comes from the outside world—both negative and positive noise. I need to be able to have a quiet, focused conversation with myself on the page.
What the Literature About Contemporary Korean Women’s Lives Illuminates About Our Own
A quick survey suggests my experience is rather typical, how this hostile atmosphere begins when girls are still children, continues with everyday misogyny, and proceeds when the weaponized penis enters the workplace.
A Project of Defiance: The Millions Interviews C Pam Zhang
As a woman of color, I take it as my task to let my imagination expand into the spaces of erasure.
A Year in Reading: Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Apparently books about racism and immigration are seriously back in demand. This prompted me to take a dip back in the current pool to see what’s new.
Dear Someone: On Asian-American Writers and Letters as Storytelling
Historically, the Asian-American story has been ignored, erased, overlooked. At its simplest, a Dear Someone letter demands to be read.