Episode 257: Jay Caspian Kang

Published: Aug. 16, 2017, 6:11 p.m.

b'Jay Caspian Kang is a writer at large at The New York Times Magazine and a correspondent for Vice News Tonight.\\n\\n \\u201cI make a pretty provocative argument about how Asian American identity doesn\\u2019t really exist\\u2014how it\\u2019s basically just an academic idea, and it\\u2019s not lived within the lives of anybody who\\u2019s Asian. Like you grow up, you\\u2019re Korean, you\\u2019re a minority. You don\\u2019t have any sort of kinship with, like, Indian kids. You know? And there\\u2019s no cultural sharedness where you\\u2019re just like, \\u2018oh yeah\\u2026Asia!\\u2019\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp, "Mussolini\\u2019s Arctic Airship", Blinkist and for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n@jaycaspiankang\\nKang\\u2019s Blog\\nKang on Longform\\n[00:00] Mussolini\\u2019s Arctic Airship (Eva Holland \\u2022 Kindle Single \\u2022 Aug 2017)\\n[00:45] "What a Fraternity Hazing Death Revealed About the Painful Search for an Asian-American Identity" (New York Times Magazine \\u2022 Aug 2017)\\n[00:45] Kang on the Longform Podcast\\n[01:15] Kang\\u2019s Archive at The New Yorker\\n[02:30] readthissummer.com\\n[02:45] Havrilesky on the Longform Podcast\\n[05:45] "That Other School Shooting" (New York Times Magazine \\u2022 Mar 2013)\\n[07:30] The Dead Do Not Improve: A Novel (Hogarth \\u2022 2013)\\n[15:15] Tim Ferriss on the Longform Podcast\\n[17:45] "John Wayne: A Love Song" (Joan Didion \\u2022 Saturday Evening Post \\u2022 Aug 1965)\\n[22:15] "A Question of Identity" (Grantland \\u2022 Mar 2012)\\n[24:45] Kang\\u2019s Column \\u201cOn Sports\\u201d at The New York Times Magazine\\n[27:30] Les Blank\\u2019s Website\\n[27:45] Amy\\n[27:45] Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck\\n[35:15] "No place like home" (Vice News \\u2022 Jun 2017)\\n[36:15] "The End and Don King" (Grantland \\u2022 Apr 2013)\\n[36:45] "Inside the final days of the Standing Rock protest" (Vice \\u2022 Feb 2017)\\n[37:30] "What comes after Standing Rock?" (Vice \\u2022 Jan 2017)\\n[39:00] "\\u2018Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us\\u2019" (New York Times Magazine \\u2022 May 2015)\\n[41:30] "Charlottesville: Race and Terror" (Vice News \\u2022 Aug 2017)\\n[42:45] "Impeached!" (David Gilbert \\u2022 Vice News \\u2022 Dec 2016)\\n[48:00] "Now You See Me" (Vice News \\u2022 Mar 2017)\\n\\n\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'