Episode 533: Hua Hsu

Hua Hsu is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His book Stay True won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for memoir. “I've worked as a journalist … for quite a while. … But this [book] was the thing that was always in the back of my mind. Like, this was the thing that a lot of that was in service of. Just becoming better at describing a song or describing the look of someone's face—these were all things that I implicitly understood as skills I needed to acquire. ... It is sort of an origin story for why I got so obsessive about writing.” Show notes: @huahsu byhuahsu.com Hsu on Longform Hsu on Longform Podcast Hsu's New Yorker archive 03:00 A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific  (Harvard University Press • 2016) 30:00 "Randall Park Breaks Out of Character"  (New Yorker • Feb 2023) 33:00 Shortcomings  (Adrian Tomine • Drawn & Quarterly • 2007) 39:00 "What Conversation Can Do For Us"  (New Yorker • Mar 2023) 39:00 "J. Crew and the Paradoxes of Prep"  (New Yorker • Mar 2023) 39:00 "The Many Afterlives of Vincent Chin"  (New Yorker • Jun 2022) 39:00 "How Wayne Wang Faces Failure"  (New Yorker • Jun 2022) 39:00 "Maxine Hong Kingston’s Genre-Defying Life and Work"  (New Yorker • Jun 2020) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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