Interior Chinatown: Migration, Citizenship, Belonging featuring Charles Yu
September 28, 2021
On Tuesday, September 28, Charles Yu joined President Cristle Collins Judd in a conversation about his 2020 National Book Award winning Interior Chinatown as well as the larger topic of belonging. Questions from the audience, comprised of students, faculty, staff, and the general public both in person and online, made for a thoughtful and thought-provoking discussion.
Charles Yu is the author of four books, including Interior Chinatown (the winner of the 2020 National Book Award for fiction), and the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (a New York Times Notable Book and a TIME magazine best book of the year). He received the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award and was nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards for his work on the HBO series, Westworld. He has also written for shows on FX, AMC, and HBO. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired, among other publications. Together with TaiwaneseAmerican.org, he established the Betty L. Yu and Jin C. Yu Writing Prizes, in honor of his parents.
