LIVE with Hua Hsu: Writing in griefs minor key
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Hello from somewhere other than Jay\\u2019s basement!\\xa0
This week, we\\u2019re excited to release the episode we recorded in New York with Hua Hsu, as part of Tammy\\u2019s residency at the A/P/A Institute at NYU. Hua is a TTSG regular and the author of a new memoir, Stay True.\\xa0
The book focuses on Hua\\u2019s friendship with Ken, a classmate at Berkeley who was killed the summer before their senior year. We probe the book\\u2019s depiction of Asian male friendship, or, as Hua experienced it, \\u201ctwo Asian American people working through stuff.\\u201d We discuss questions of craft, how to assemble two decades of documentation, and the intense highs and lows of young adulthood.\\xa0
Plus: Hua on pre-Internet zine-making and private worlds, emulating Maxine Hong Kingston (who\\u2019d emulated Walt Whitman), and the joy of putting his parents and Ken in textual proximity to Aristotle, Jacques Derrida, and Charles Taylor.\\xa0
You can also watch a video of our conversation, professionally produced by A/P/A, here:
Big thanks to Amita Manghnani, Crystal Parikh, and Laura Chen-Schultz!\\xa0\\xa0
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