![]() ![]() ![]() That character was Willis Wu, the novel’s protagonist. Steph Cha shares a meal and some notes on performing identity with the “Interior Chinatown” author. Still, I felt from the inside that there was something that wasn’t quite getting unlocked.”īooks Charles Yu knows the world isn’t black and white I was showing them to my agent, and she was really encouraging and supportive and enthusiastic about some of the material. ![]() “I went through a lot of versions of it,” Yu recalls. I didn’t know what I was doing.” He tried different ways of telling the story, from a conventional novel to “another stage where it was fairy tales.” But none of those permutations felt right. “I had a lot of ideas about it having something to do with magic, with magical realism. “When I started, I had a very different conception of what the book would be,” Yu says. “I had a bunch of false starts and dead ends,” he recalls. ![]() He started trying to write “Interior Chinatown” in 2012, but kept finding reasons to put it aside. For Yu, a corporate attorney turned novelist and television writer, figuring out how to channel his perceptions of cultural bias into a book was a struggle. ![]()
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