6/21/2023 0 Comments Charles yu books![]() ![]() Doesn’t help when you are on your third broken leg of the day. The shift manager never stops reminding us. ![]() Pain is an illusion, I know, and so is time, I know, I know. HOUSTON, SeptemIn partnership with the Asian Pacific Interest Section (APIS) of the Texas State Bar and Haynes and Boone, LLP, Asia Society Texas welcomed National Book Award-winning author Charles Yu for a program examining his experience of being Asian in America. What I get is twelve dollars an hour, plus reimbursement for painkillers. Root canal is one fifty, give or take, depending on who’s doing it to you. ![]() I mean, emotions, amirite? What do you do with them? Here’s one idea: This is the story that first turned me on to Charles Yu, a whole decade before he would win the National Book Award for Interior Chinatown-it’s a science fiction story, but like all the best science fiction stories, it’s actually about that complex magic that has existed for all time, and will keep existing as long as we do: the impossible pain and endless vagaries of being a person. “Standard Loneliness Package” by Charles Yu Why not read along with us? Today, we recommend: According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day of the month. ![]()
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