New Writing Daughter’s Daughter “New York is good. They have the Trump Tower there.” Nai Nai’s eyes widened. I was slightly shocked. Yet this did not surprise me because she was obsessed with Trump. Not in a way that she would vote for him - she did not even know what it meant to vote.
New Writing Crying in Baumarkt Stories of migration, especially when told to those who never have to think about the logistics of mobility, are often cloaked in the language of sacrifice, love, resilience, and tenacity.
Interviews Sansan: I am trying to make friends with anxiety after two-year full commitment into writing In Shanghai, you rarely have the opportunity to intrude into someone’s genuine private space, especially when she is a writer. But when we hesitated about where to grab a drink on a Saturday night at 8 PM, Sansan eagerly suggested we could go to her place. "I'
Workshops Qian Jianan: Creative Writing Workshop From Iowa's Experiences Jianan Qian writes in both Chinese and English. In her native Chinese, she has published four books. In English, she is a staff writer for The Millions; her works have appeared in the New York Times, Guernica, the Bare Life Review and elsewhere. Here is her Granta page. She has
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Interviews Interview Yang Zhihan Yang Zhihan doesn’t quite fit the mold of a typical “Northeastern writer.” Born in 1994, she left Northeast China at the age of eighteen, and this year marks her twelfth year living in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Parts of the plot in her novels are born from “time-travel moments” where, while
