Ep. 55: Kirstin Chen & Michael Nye

In her second novel, BURY WHAT WE CANNOT TAKE, Kirstin Chen depicts a family in China under the tightening rule of Mao. She tells James about her choice to tell the story when and how she did, along with trying to make people happy, learning to craft endings from short stories, dealing with cultural tourism, and, of course, writing in a cave in a museum. Plus, Michael Nye on the AWP conference, selling your book, scheduling your day, and writing longhand.   

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Kirstin Chen: http://kirstinchen.com/

Kirstin and James discuss: 

NTU-NAC National Writer in Residence in Singapore

Little A 

Matthew Salesses 

Emerson College 

Columbia University 

NYU 

Chairman Mao 

The Great Famine 

The Great Leap Forward 

Drum Wave Inlet 

Michelle Brower 

Jamie Quatro 

Zadie Smith 

Vanessa Hua 

The San Francisco Chronicle 

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Michael and James discuss: 

BOULEVARD MAGAZINE 

NATURAL BRIDGE: A JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE 

University of Missouri in St. Louis 

AWP Conference 

Annette Bening 

AMERICAN BEAUTY 

Maggie Smith 

Ohio State University 

Ruth Awad 

TINY LETTER 

RIVER STYX MAGAZINE 

Annie Hartnett

DEEP WORK by Cal Newport  

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