Photo credit: Tina Chiou
Charles Yu has been writing award-winning, genre-bending work for nearly twenty years now, including the short story collection
Third Class Superhero and
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, which was the runner-up for 2011’s Campbell Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. His work in television includes being a writer and story editor for the first season of
Westworld, and his latest novel,
Interior Chinatown, recently won the National Book Award in Fiction, a rare moment of joy in 2020.
Just before the new year, Yu and I spoke about the novel, writing techniques, and his new novelette,