Listen "Jack Wang, "We Two Alone" (HarperCollins, 2021)"
Episode Synopsis
An interview with Jack Wang, author of We Two Alone (2021). Jack and I discuss his debut story collection, We Two Alone, which Viet Thanh Nguyen calls “utterly remarkable,” the as-of-yet unwritten Great Hockey Novel, AAPI hate, and the new global novel.
Books Recommended in this episode:
Jack Recommends:
Nana Nkweti, Walking on Cowry Shells
Gil Adamson, Ridgerunner
Ling Ma, Severance
Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers
K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro as World Literature, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers.
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Books Recommended in this episode:
Jack Recommends:
Nana Nkweti, Walking on Cowry Shells
Gil Adamson, Ridgerunner
Ling Ma, Severance
Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers
K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro as World Literature, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers.
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