![]() ![]() ![]() This is from How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: So, would you mind reading for us?Ĭharles Yu (CY): Sure. ![]() Fan (CF) : I asked you to choose a passage from one of your novels to kick things off. Caryl Phillips, Ruth Ozeki, and Chang-rae Lee are recent guests.Ĭhristopher T. You can hear a longer version of this conversation on Novel Dialogue, a podcast that has partnered with Public Books since spring 2022. His principal interlocutor in this wonderful conversation (I was a wobbly third wheel) is his longtime friend Chris Fan, who is not only assistant professor at UC Irvine in English, Asian American studies, and East Asian studies, but also senior editor at Hyphen magazine, which he cofounded. ![]() Yu’s other work includes two books of short stories ( Third Class Hero, published in 2006, and Sorry Please Thank You, published in 2012), as well as writing credits on several episodes of Westworld. Yu is a master anatomizer of the self-deceptive infilling we all do every day to make our own worlds seem predictable or safe, when they’re anything but. His 2010 How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, for example, is an utterly fascinating exercise in sending characters (and readers, after them) down predictable paths, deploying known narrative conventions-only to double back, revealing the ways our own minds lead us into unwarranted assumptions. Some of us, though, trace our fandom much further back than that. Sure, Charles Yu won the National Book Award, in 2020, for Interior Chinatown. ![]()
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