From the Pudong Airport to Tiananmen Square | Los Angeles Review of Books Rebecca F. Kuang reviews Lai Wen’s “Tiananmen Square” and Juli Min’s “Shanghailanders.”

i wrote about Juli Min's SHANGHAILANDERS and Lai Wen's TIANANMEN SQUARE, two debut novels from this past year that i enjoyed greatly

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When it comes to writing a novel, you have to be obsessed with it. Think about the thing you're most into right now. If you aren't at least that locked into thinking about your book, you're not going to make it. It must consume your whole being. Full stop.

A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014.
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 was awarded to Han Kang "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life"

Han Kang's Nobel lecture is now online.

Please note that this was filmed *before* the events of 12/3 and only *released* now.

"...and I wondered if he worried he would never find his way out, if the world of fiction had lost its protective powers..."

Y'all, Katie Kiramura's AUDITION lands in April and every page will transport you to unsettling places deep in your psyche. Yes, it's a real good feeling.

Maurice!!! You made me write gooder!

so, hey