Articles by Sonya Chung
March 10, 2010
Asian American Short Story Contest 0
Hyphen Magazine/Asian American Writers’ Workshop are co-sponsoring a short story contest, judged by Alexander Chee and Jaed Coffin. $1,000 prize and publication in Hyphen, open to all U.S. and Canadian writers of Asian descent. Details here.
March 9, 2010
Sonya Chung at McNally Jackson 3/10 0
Millions Contributor Sonya Chung will read from her just-released novel Long for This World at McNally Jackson Books, 52 Prince Street, NYC, on March 10 at 7pm.
February 23, 2010
Remnick on Obama: The Bridge 1
New Yorker editor David Remnick’s biography of President Obama will be released April 6, with a first printing of 200,000. Details at PW.
February 11, 2010
Oddest Titles of the Year 0
Nominees for The Bookseller Diagram Prize for the Oddest Title of the Year have been announced. My favorite, which to me is not odd at all actually, is Bacon: A Love Story. Scatology abounds in this list, including: Peek-a-poo:What’s in Your Diaper, and The Origin of Faeces.
February 11, 2010
The Millions Interview: David Shields (Part Two) 5
“Crucial for me in writing this book was my vexed sense of the way in which great nonfiction is badly boxed in by straightahead memoir, on the one hand, and straightahead fiction, on the other.”
February 10, 2010
The Millions Interview: David Shields (Part One) 16
“I’m trying to renew the novel form, not end it. A relationship is like a shark; if it doesn’t keep moving, it dies. What we have here is a dead shark. Can we not shock it awake?”
