It’s in the latest issue of The Citron Review. Notes from Hedwicka Cox, Fiction Editor, on the issue’s Fiction Selections: What is magic? Magic is dreaming. Magic…… Read more “Self Wrote a Story”
Tag: Asian American Writers
Making Progress
As usual: SPOILER ALERT! This novel is incredibly dense with incident, and also incredibly circumlocutious: it shows you something, then the thread breaks off, it’s suddenly ten…… Read more “Making Progress”
Trying to Rush Through
SPOILER ALERT, naturally! He was frightened by how much he was about to fuck up, by his lack of desire to stop himself, the rising anticipation at…… Read more “Trying to Rush Through”
The White Parents Take Their Chinese Foster Kids to a Chinese Restaurant in New York
Good scene. Thanks, Lisa Ko. Deming Guo is now Daniel Wilkinson. Kay and Peter are Deming/Daniel’s foster parents. : The dishes came out fast and were limp,…… Read more “The White Parents Take Their Chinese Foster Kids to a Chinese Restaurant in New York”
Macro Monday: 4 April 2022
This is self’s entry for the Macro Monday challenge. Jez Braithwaite’s Funghi and Moss post is wonderful. She just finished attending the AWP 2022 Conference and Book…… Read more “Macro Monday: 4 April 2022”
The Leavers, p. 27: Angel
This novel is finally starting to pick up the pace. Daniel had known her since they were kids, but their long, insomniac phone calls had only started…… Read more “The Leavers, p. 27: Angel”
Novel: Biggest Pet Peeves
The 10-year time jump. Especially after Chapter One ends on the BIGGEST CLIFF-Y of all time. That is all. Declan, I surmise, is Deming? I suppose we’ll…… Read more “Novel: Biggest Pet Peeves”
POETRY SUNDAY: Joel Tan
Self’s own painting of hyacinths FREE You were always freeJust thought yourself otherwiseUnthink + just be.Listen for birdsong + trees.If you want to reconnect. For many years,…… Read more “POETRY SUNDAY: Joel Tan”
Hearing
Despite the frustrating lack of PDAs between Holmes and Mary Russell, this book has been serving up an array of delightful facts about supernatural phenomena. Convo between…… Read more “Hearing”
The Best Laid Plans
What is with this book? Self is still reading it! She confesses she was so irked by a scene she read late last night — gobs of…… Read more “The Best Laid Plans”
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