Most of what I have been writing about over the last several months has focused on trauma and various authors’ ways of making sense of whatever event they experienced, whether that be assault, abuse, or examples of historical violence. This focus may seem like a surprise for some of you but, as I have mentioned […]
I first picked up Esmé Weijun Wang‘s The Border of Paradise earlier in the summer as a sample on Kindle and was immediately struck by her writing style. However, as is my habit, I set it aside for other books in my reading queue and didn’t actually read it until now. In some ways I’m glad that I […]
I mentioned on my Instagram a few months ago that I have very little experience reading Japanese-American literature, particularly when it comes to texts focusing on what it was like being Japanese during WWII. Aside from the classic No-No Boy by John Okada, which was assigned during one of my undergrad classes, I hadn’t picked up any […]
Like The Sympathizer by Viet Than Nguyen (which was my previous read), Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being was a book that I saw make the rounds online before I finally picked it up — the cover is absolutely stunning, so I can’t blame anyone on Instagram for showcasing it. I finished The Sympathizer sooner than I had anticipated, […]
Like many people, I find it really difficult to start writing. By now, I’m pretty familiar with how I approach writing: research a lot until you get to a point where you know (deep inside) that you need to actually sit down and start writing about all the ideas that you have been focusing on […]
There were a number of great books and great authors that I read in 2017, but there was one particular author who captured my heart in 2017 and who quickly became one of my favorite authors ever: Maggie Nelson. Like most people on social media, I became aware of Maggie Nelson when her text The Argonauts began […]
Between work and research, I don’t have as much time to delve into all of the books that I would like to read when I first hear about them. The Vegetarian by Han Kang is another one of those books that I have seen floating around Instagram for the past year or so. Many of the […]
