Articles by Sonya Chung
March 30, 2011
Staff Pick: The Literary Life: A Scrapbook Almanac 1900 to 1950 0
Phelps and Deane were interested in the individualized, romantic convergence of reader and writer; in the deeply-felt notion that literature matters in life, that indeed it is life.
February 25, 2011
The Great Divide: Writing Across Gender 18
Do we ever really “forget” the author? Does she ever truly recede when we are reading gender-crossing works? Do we necessarily want her to?
January 19, 2011
The Long and the Short of It: Linked Story Collections Bridging the Divide 13
To me, the short story is this miraculously compressed form, elegant and complex, small in shape but large and deep in meaning; it has the capacity for perfection in a way that the novel does not.
December 1, 2010
Sonya Chung at Sweet: Actors Reading Writers 0
My inner dramatist will have a debut outing at Sweet: Actors Reading Writers, Thurs. 12/2 at 7:30 pm, Three of Cups (First Ave at 5th Street, NYC). Actor Tonya Edmonds will perform an excerpt from my novel-in-progress, Sebastian & Frederick. Other featured writers: Ed Park, Amanda Filipacchi, Jonathan Dixon, Maya Pindyck.
October 29, 2010
What We Teach When We Teach Writers: On the Quantifiable and the Uncertain 21
“I think the single most defining characteristic of a writer” – I found myself saying to a friend the other day, when she asked my thoughts on the teaching of writing – “I mean the difference between a writer and someone who ‘wants to be a writer,’ is a high tolerance for uncertainty.”
October 15, 2010
Sorkin’s Rapid-Fire May Have Jumped the Gun: Thoughts on ‘The Social Network’ 5
How can we have perspective on Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s 26 year-old founder, or the cultural power of Facebook, when the phenomena – both man and network – are clearly still evolving, in both our realities and our collective minds?
