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One Book, One Community Read: Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

Use this guide to inform your reading of Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown.

Reviews and Articles

"All the World's a Stage: On Charles Yu's 'Interior Chinatown'," by Pete Hsu, Los Angeles Review of Books, January 28, 2020
"All the World's a Stage," by Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times, March 1, 2020
"Charles Yu's 'Interior Chinatown' brilliantly skewers Hollywood typecasting," by Carolyn Kellogg, Washington Post, January 27, 2020
"Charles Yu is so not 'Kung Fu Guy'; The author skewers TV stereotypes of Asian Americans at just the right moment," by Patrick J. Kiger, Los Angeles Times, May 25, 2021
"Charles Yu Knows the World Isn't Black and White," by Steph Cha, Los Angeles Times, February 19, 2020.
"Novelest Charles Yu Worries America Is Getting Less Inclusive...," by James R. Hagerty, Wall Street Journal, December 31, 2020.
"NYPL Librarians Pick Their 2020 Favorites," Library Journal, December 2020
"Op-Ed: The Cruel Plot Twist in the Asian American Story," by Charles Yu, Los Angeles Times, March 21, 2021
"Subverting Hollywood's Asian Script," by Carolyn Kellogg, The Washington Post, January 28, 2020.
"With His Fourth Book, Charles Yu Finally Feels Like a Writer," by Adam Sternbergh, New York Times, January 22, 2020.

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