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Everything Asian: A Novel

Everything Asian: A Novel

In its clear-eyed take on family and community, Everything Asian is Everything American.

2009

Stories

Pinned

Airport (1970): An Imperfect Best Picture Nominee for Our Imperfect Times

The Academy Awards are around the corner, and no doubt the viewers at home are eagerly awaiting which of the presenters will be slapped…

Mar 9, 2023

Airport (1970): An Imperfect Best Picture Nominee for Our Imperfect Times

Mar 9, 2023

Novel #5, Lines

cover by Jun Cen artwork by Dina Brodsky

Oct 5

Novel #5, Lines

Oct 5

Possibly Standup: “We’re All a Little Gay”

So now we come to what started this odyssey. Back on November 7, 2020, I wrote the first draft of this routine. I do think this is probably…

Aug 4

Possibly Standup: “We’re All a Little Gay”

Aug 4

Line up for Lines

Folks, I’ll make this short and sweet. Or bittersweet, more accurately. My fifth novel is titled Lines. It looks like this:

May 22

Line up for Lines

May 22

From the Department of Tortured Poets

Since today is Valentine’s Day, I thought I’d share some misplaced passion from thirty-odd years ago: Vintage poems from my college days…

Feb 14

From the Department of Tortured Poets

Feb 14

So Why Did You Do It?

The last thing I expected to be reading this morning was an article entitled, “‘So why did you do it?’: Explanations provided by Child…

Dec 31, 2023

So Why Did You Do It?

Dec 31, 2023

Publication Day for Deep Roots!

Today is the official publication day for Deep Roots, my fourth novel. Friends and family have told me they have already received their…

Sep 5, 2023

Publication Day for Deep Roots!

Sep 5, 2023

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Debugger

The Old Man and the Gamepad

New tricks for the old dog

Jan 19, 2022

The Old Man and the Gamepad

Jan 19, 2022

The Space Knoll

I recently screened a film, After Life, by one of my favorite directors, Hirokazu Koreeda. The question the film asks of its recently…

Aug 24, 2021

The Space Knoll

Aug 24, 2021

I Can’t Hear You

Somebody made an audiobook of my second novel, and I had no idea it existed

Jun 25, 2021

I Can’t Hear You

Jun 25, 2021

Sung J. Woo

Sung J. Woo

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Novelist (Lines, Deep Roots, Skin Deep, Love Love, Everything Asian), essayist (New York Times, Vox), occasional traveler. www.sungjwoo.com

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