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Hua Hsu is a staff writer for\xa0The New Yorker. His book\xa0Stay True\xa0won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for memoir.\n\u201cI've worked as a journalist \u2026 for quite a while. \u2026 But this [book] was the thing that was always in the back of my mind. Like, this was the thing that a lot of that was in service of. Just becoming better at describing a song or describing the look of someone's face\u2014these were all things that I implicitly understood as skills I needed to acquire. ... It is sort of an origin story for why I got so obsessive about writing.\u201d\nShow notes:\n\n@huahsu\n\nbyhuahsu.com\n\nHsu on Longform\n\nHsu on Longform Podcast\n\nHsu's\xa0New Yorker\xa0archive\n\n03:00\xa0A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific\xa0(Harvard University Press \u2022 2016)\n\n30:00\xa0"Randall Park Breaks Out of Character"\xa0(New Yorker \u2022 Feb 2023)\n\n33:00\xa0Shortcomings\xa0(Adrian Tomine \u2022 Drawn & Quarterly \u2022 2007)\n\n39:00\xa0"What Conversation Can Do For Us"\xa0(New Yorker \u2022 Mar 2023)\n\n39:00\xa0"J. Crew and the Paradoxes of Prep"\xa0(New Yorker \u2022 Mar 2023)\n\n39:00\xa0"The Many Afterlives of Vincent Chin"\xa0(New Yorker \u2022 Jun 2022)\n\n39:00\xa0"How Wayne Wang Faces Failure"\xa0(New Yorker \u2022 Jun 2022)\n\n39:00\xa0"Maxine Hong Kingston\u2019s Genre-Defying Life and Work"\xa0(New Yorker \u2022 Jun 2020)\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices