When I looked back at my list of 2021 reads I realized that I had a sufficient catalog of these stories to pay special tribute to the Biblioracle Book Awards for Memoir and Biography for the very first time.
Spencertown Academy Arts Center will host the 2021 Virtual Festival of Books, online, Oct 7-31. The festival, now in its 16th year, will host a variety of author-led talks over
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Mar 8, 2021
I’m usually shelved in the “historical fiction” section, but inside my own head, I don’t do genre. I just make stuff up and when it’s interesting, I write it down as well as I can (confession: There’s a little more to it than that). When the story’s set in the past, it goes on one shelf of the bookshop; when the setting is the present, it goes on a different shelf, and when the setting is the future, it goes on yet another. But who I fundamentally am
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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,