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How an Epic and Violent Family History Fuels Fiction Oliver Munday Editor’s Note: Read Paul Yoon’s new short story, “Person of Korea.” “Person of Korea” is a new short story by Paul Yoon. To mark the story’s publication in The Atlantic, Yoon and Oliver Munday, a design director of the magazine, discussed the story over email. Their conversation has been lightly edited for clarity. Oliver Munday: Your short story “Person of Korea” is set partially in a village of Korean laborers near the southeastern edge of Russia. It takes place shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union. What about this location and time period drew your interest? ....
New in Paperback: âBlowoutâ and âThe Last Trialâ By Jennifer Krauss AT THE CENTER OF ALL BEAUTY: Solitude and the Creative Life, by Fenton Johnson. (Norton, 272 pp., $15.95.) An author of novels, essays and memoirs who grew up next door to Trappist monks, Johnson argues that solitude, the opposite of loneliness, is essential not only to creativity (as evidenced by the outputs of 11 historic arts figures), but also to living fully, and usefully, in the world. RUN ME TO EARTH, by Paul Yoon. (Simon & Schuster, 288 pp., $17.) âBeauty and violence coexistâ in a universe âby turns cruel and wondrous,â our reviewer, Tash Aw, wrote of this ârichly layeredâ novel that follows three Laotian children whom we meet in a field hospital during American bombing raids. What they donât yet realize is âhow the pain of their wartime years will spread its tentacles ⦠across continents and over decades.â ....
Natasha Gilmore, Idlewild Books and Open Borders Books, NYC : This book contains two novellas and some short stories set around Colombia (and occasionally Miami). The narration is often low-affect, sharply cynical, and wryly observed. There’s a cutting honesty in the voice throughout the book that feels totally absent from so much literature now. It reminded me of the feeling of encountering something truly when I was a teenager. But then there’s just the crushing reality of coming into sexuality as a teen, colorism and racism in Colombia, the restlessness wrought by capitalism and the desire to flee yourself and the accidents of your birth that ultimately coalesce into something so universally resonant, that will make any reader feel seen and connected. Truly an author worthy of attention. ....
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