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Tag Archives: BookDragon

“We have to learn from history and stop repeating its mistakes”: Q&A with Helen Zia
Authors / Features / Interviews / Nonfiction

“We have to learn from history and stop repeating its mistakes”: Q&A with Helen Zia

Posted on March 10, 2020 by bloomingth • 1 Comment

by Terry Hong

Where history lacks documentation, Zia presents the first—and only—book in English about “the massive exodus” in the late 1940s when 1.6 million of Shanghai’s 6 million residents fled the Communist Revolution. Continue reading →

“I cared more about making the reader uncomfortable than happy… discomfort makes you question and think”: Q&A with Joanne Ramos
Authors / Debut Authors / Features / Fiction / Interviews

“I cared more about making the reader uncomfortable than happy… discomfort makes you question and think”: Q&A with Joanne Ramos

Posted on November 19, 2019 by bloomingth • 3 Comments

by Terry Hong

“The ideas of The Farm are ones that have obsessed me for decades…” Continue reading →

“I’m still getting used to the idea of being a writer”: Q&A with Angie Kim
Features / Fiction / Interviews

“I’m still getting used to the idea of being a writer”: Q&A with Angie Kim

Posted on May 21, 2019 by Bloom • 2 Comments

by Terry Hong

“Yes, I hoped and dreamed, of course (don’t we all?), but in the same way that you hope and dream you’ll win the lottery, not in the way that you think it will actually happen. It’s been an amazing ride …” Continue reading →

“It is always funny to me when I show up to readings and people expect me to be my characters”: Q&A with Carrianne Leung
Features / Fiction / Interviews

“It is always funny to me when I show up to readings and people expect me to be my characters”: Q&A with Carrianne Leung

Posted on February 26, 2019 by SI BookDragon • 1 Comment

by Terry Hong

“I think of an image, an event, a line, and I just go from there. I never have outlines. I never know where it’s going to go. The story reveals itself to me little by little.” Continue reading →

FAMOUS ADOPTED PEOPLE, A Story “In My Bones”: Q&A with Alice Stephens
Features / Fiction / Interviews

FAMOUS ADOPTED PEOPLE, A Story “In My Bones”: Q&A with Alice Stephens

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Bloom • 1 Comment

by Terry Hong

“I was concerned the hegemony of American influence was changing the way the world thought, looked, and shopped.” Continue reading →

Everything Here is Beautiful: Q & A with Mira T. Lee
Features / Fiction / Interviews

Everything Here is Beautiful: Q & A with Mira T. Lee

Posted on January 30, 2018 by Bloom • 1 Comment

by Terry Hong

I wondered if my cast of characters might feel off-putting to publishers, too bizarre or unconventional, and if it’d be easier if their cultural backgrounds were removed from the equation [but] my agent and editor never once saw my characters’ backgrounds as anything but enriching to the story. Continue reading →

Café Leila & Beautiful Ruins: Q&A with Donia Bijan
Features / Fiction / Interviews

Café Leila & Beautiful Ruins: Q&A with Donia Bijan

Posted on October 31, 2017 by editor • 2 Comments

by Terry Hong

“For too long I’ve been preoccupied with ‘belonging’ . . . I realized what really matters most is that which keeps us grounded.” Continue reading →

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