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b'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'