![]() ![]() ![]() In my writing and teaching, I'm always interested in the circumference of our imaginations: where we learn what's allowed and what's not, how we come to understand the boundaries of taste, what it means to dream beyond reason. ![]() ![]() It's basically about how a circle of powerful Americans - and one oddball Chinese writer - imagined China in the 1930s and 1940s, written from the perspective of someone who grew up obsessed with rap beef. This week my first book came out! it's called A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific. I'm a writer (currently for The New Yorker, previously for Grantland, Slate, and other places) and I also teach at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. I grew up in Cupertino, California, a place I'm very fond of now that I no longer live there. I've just nudged my dog off the couch, so I'm sitting on my couch, which is in Brooklyn, New York. This week's Angry Reader is Hua Hsu.Īmong other identities: a teacher, a writer, a second generation Taiwanese American, a Californian, a husband, a father, a collector. Over the years, I've been able to connect with a lot of cool folks, and this is a way of showing some appreciation and attention to the people who help make this blog what it is. It's time to meet the Angry Reader of the Week, spotlighting you, the very special readers of this website. "In my writing and teaching, I'm always interested in the circumference of our imaginations." ![]()
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