Episode: Ep330: Charles Yu Talks About ‘Interior Chinatown’

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Ep330: Charles Yu Talks About ‘Interior Chinatown’

1 - Charles Yu Talks About ‘Interior Chinatown’

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Published at: 1/8/2021

Author: The New York Times

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Charles Yu’s “Interior Chinatown,” which won the National Book Award for fiction in November, is a satire about Hollywood’s treatment of Asian-Americans. It features an actor named Willis Wu, who has a very small role in a TV show. On this week’s podcast, Yu, himself a writer for TV as well as a novelist, discusses the book and why he wrote it.  David S. Brown visits the podcast to discuss his new biography of Henry Adams, “The Last American Aristocrat.” Adams was the great-grandson of John Adams, the grandson of John Quincy Adams and the author of “The Education of Henry Adams,” a posthumously published memoir that is widely considered one of the greatest nonfiction works of the 20th century. Also, Alexandra Alter answers questions from listeners about the publishing industry, and Gregory Cowles, John Williams and the show's host, Pamela Paul, discuss what they're reading. The books discussed on "What We're Reading" this week:  “Just Like You” by Nick Hornby “The Watch Tower” by Elizabeth Harrower “The Last Million” by David Nasaw

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