FLUX, the debut novel by jinwoochong, comes out today. In this month's edition of OPEN BOOK, the author tells us the first thing he did after he turned in a draft of his book.
an unexpected sci-fi novel that integrates time travel and tech dystopia into the complex emotional landscape of its three narrators as they explore grief, trauma, and Asian-American identity. From his longtime love of The Kite Runner to an awkward early-career encounter with a big suit at a major publishing house, Chong gets candid in our questionnaire below.I write at the roughly 30% of my desk that is not currently monopolized by my work computer and extra screen.
Book Culture in Long Island City, Shakespeare & Co on the Upper West Side, Greenlight in Brooklyn, where I had my first ever event, and The Strand, where Alexander Chee and I will beAnything that makes reading more appealing than other things I love. Some instances in reverse chronological order: when I sat on the beach in Asbury Park for four hours and read Emily St.
In the most impressive, inaccessible, high-brow-forward orientation I can think of, curated for whoever might be coming over to see it.When I was a 20-year-old publishing intern at Simon & Schuster, then-editor-now-CEO Jonathan Karp asked me at an office mixer for the last book I’d read that had shaken my core. I said:, by Anna Kendrick, which was a title I was helping the marketing department with that week. We did not speak further.
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