Columns
| Love and Silence
To Tell a Story Is to Tell It Again, to Carry Another Time
Regret, I was once told, means to weep again. My first thought, when I heard this: That’s what it is to tell a story.
On Writing
| Shop Talk
On Worldbuilding and the Question of Resistance
In fiction, you can feel good about resistance without actually resisting anything.
Columns
| Love and Silence
Fate and Desire in Asian America
The satisfaction people take in free will comes not from their ability to choose, but from their ability to feel like they’ve chosen.
Columns
| Love and Silence
What Does It Mean to Write Asian American Literature?
In my family, race itself did not exist. If I wanted to be real, I could not experience what was not real.
Columns
| Love and Silence
Love and Silence in Asian America
If the world responds to our silence and not to our love, then it teaches us that silence is a condition of our development.