![]() ![]() ![]() Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes, Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu's most moving, daring, and masterly novel yet. to the author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah for a recent By the Book interview. He spoke candidly with me about how he and his family are dealing with the pandemic, his writing process, what it was like appearing on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and how he transitioned from a career. comes from Interior Chinatown, a novel by Charles Yu about an Asian m. At least that's what he has been told, time and time again. Charles Yu is a Taiwanese American writer, author of the novel Interior Chinatown, and winner of the 2020 National Book Award for fiction. ![]() He's a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy - the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. Charles Yu is the author of four books, including Interior Chinatown, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. talks about his new collection of short stories, Sorry Please Thank You. Yet every day he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. Charles Yu joins us to discuss his new novel, Interior Chinatown, a send-up. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop. Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He's merely Generic Asian man. Winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction - a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, and escaping the roles we are forced to play-by the author of the infinitely inventive How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. ![]()
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