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Fire & Ink: Writing Desire with Duras

Fire & Ink: Writing Desire with Duras

Marguerite Duras’ The Lover is a classic meditation on love and desire, colonialism and class, identity and otherness, Saigon and Paris. In prose that is both scorching and delicate, Duras writes of a love that spans a lifetime—at once passionate and quiet, affirming and annihilating. She speaks of the

Writing Sex and Intimacy in Fiction | Sanmingzhi Workshop

Writing Sex and Intimacy in Fiction | Sanmingzhi Workshop

In these three writing workshops we will unpick the writing of sex and intimacy in fiction, thinking not only about language and form but also about the politics of bringing sex to the page.

Daughter’s Daughter

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.

Crying in Baumarkt

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.

Sansan: I am trying to make friends with anxiety after two-year full commitment into writing

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'

Qian Jianan: Creative Writing Workshop From Iowa's Experiences

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

Chen Sicheng: Writing Life from Reading Classic Novels

Chen Sicheng: Writing Life from Reading Classic Novels

Chen Sicheng: Writing Life from Reading Classic Novels 13/10-11/12, 2024 More about

Interview Yang Zhihan

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

Interview Yang Meng

Interview Yang Meng

The Flavor of Chinatown’s author shares his insights