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Podcast: Art Works Podcast
Episode: Charles Yu
Description: Charles Yu’s novel (and National Book Award winner) Interior Chinatown is an insightful, searing, and inventive exploration of Asian-American identity and representation in popular culture. Written in the form of a television screenplay, Interior Chinatown tells the story of actor Willis Wu who is doomed to play various generic Asian characters in a TV procedural called “Black and White.” But the series is a metauniverse, forever in production, dictating the roles of everyone in the book based on their race, gender and age. Our hero Willis Wu wants more—he wants a story of a story of his own: he wa...