Nicole Chung

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author of A LIVING REMEDY and ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW

contributor to Time, Slate, and The Atlantic / writer for hire

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I talked with the great Elizabeth Acevedo about how she became a storyteller, why poetry is her “first language,” and her experience writing her first novel for adults: “In some ways, this book is a project about how to know what’s true.”

https://time.com/6295834/elizabeth-acevedo-family-lore-interview/

Elizabeth Acevedo Has Written Her First Novel for Adults–and It's Full of Magic

YA author Elizabeth Acevedo has written her first novel for adults. In 'Family Lore,' Flor, a seer of deaths, summons her family to celebrate her life at a living wake.

Time

I talked with the great Elizabeth Acevedo about how she became a storyteller, why poetry is her “first language,” and her experience writing her first novel for adults: “In some ways, this book is a project about how to know what’s true.”

https://time.com/6295834/elizabeth-acevedo-family-lore-interview/

Elizabeth Acevedo Has Written Her First Novel for Adults–and It's Full of Magic

YA author Elizabeth Acevedo has written her first novel for adults. In 'Family Lore,' Flor, a seer of deaths, summons her family to celebrate her life at a living wake.

Time

This Friday, 7/21, NYC: join Min Jin Lee, Mary H.K. Choi, Eric Kim, Hannah Bae, and me for a conversation presented by PEN America x Lincoln Center! Free community event, please register if you plan to attend:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pen-presents-k-lit-a-conversation-with-korean-american-authors-tickets-677512426907

PEN Presents: K-LIT; A Conversation with Korean American Authors

A conversation with Korean-American authors on the K-Zeitgeist.

Eventbrite

This Friday, 7/21, NYC: join Min Jin Lee, Mary H.K. Choi, Eric Kim, Hannah Bae, and me for a conversation presented by PEN America x Lincoln Center! Free community event, please register if you plan to attend:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pen-presents-k-lit-a-conversation-with-korean-american-authors-tickets-677512426907

PEN Presents: K-LIT; A Conversation with Korean American Authors

A conversation with Korean-American authors on the K-Zeitgeist.

Eventbrite
Thanks @angryasianman + @originalspin for inviting me on They Call Us Bruce! We talked about everything from family, grief, & elder care to the Deanna Troi cameo in A Living Remedy, If John Cho Were Your Boyfriend, and the good/bad/WTF of writing about your life. This is one of the best/most fun conversations I've gotten to have about the book—listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: https://theycallusbruce.libsyn.com/205-they-call-us-nicole-chung
They Call Us Bruce: 205: They Call Us Nicole Chung

Jeff and Phil welcome writer , author of , which tells the story of her adoption and search for her birth family, and  her memoir about grief and the death of her adoptive parents. They discuss grieving under capitalism, writing and enduring through loss (and a global pandemic), , and why you should never ever ever tell casual strangers that you're a writer. Also: They Good, The Bad, and The WTF of writing your life.

Thanks @angryasianman + @originalspin for inviting me on They Call Us Bruce! We talked about everything from family, grief, & elder care to the Deanna Troi cameo in A Living Remedy, If John Cho Were Your Boyfriend, and the good/bad/WTF of writing about your life. This is one of the best/most fun conversations I've gotten to have about the book—listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: https://theycallusbruce.libsyn.com/205-they-call-us-nicole-chung
They Call Us Bruce: 205: They Call Us Nicole Chung

Jeff and Phil welcome writer , author of , which tells the story of her adoption and search for her birth family, and  her memoir about grief and the death of her adoptive parents. They discuss grieving under capitalism, writing and enduring through loss (and a global pandemic), , and why you should never ever ever tell casual strangers that you're a writer. Also: They Good, The Bad, and The WTF of writing your life.

July 21, 6pm: PEN America presents a conversation with Korean American authors at Lincoln Center, feat. Min Jin Lee, Eric Kim, Mary H.K. Choi, Hannah Bae, and me. If you're in NYC, please join us! Free admission, just show up.

https://pen.org/event/pen-presents-k-lit-a-conversation-with-korean-american-authors-on-the-k-zeitgeist/

PEN Presents: K-Lit - A Conversation with Korean-American Authors on the K-Zeitgeist

In partnership with Lincoln Center, PEN America convenes a roster of leading NYC-based Korean-American writers and artists for a conversation exploring what fuels their creative practice, squaring their relationship with South Korea's growing global cultural

PEN America
I kind of wanted to slack today on my #1000wordsofsummer but then I saw the guest writer was my friend @nicolesjchung so I had get writing because she's incredible.
https://1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/day-6-of-1000wordsofsummer-2023
Day 6 of #1000wordsofsummer 2023

Hi friends. Today you will write 1000 words. Because you have a desire to be emotionally present for yourself in the way that only writing can help you to be. This fall #1000wordsofsummer will be sponsoring a Scholastic Book Fair for one lucky school in New Orleans. Nicole has asked that her donation go toward that pool.

CRAFT TALK
I was so glad to get to participate in this conversation—one of the best and most thoughtful I've had about A Living Remedy—with @annehelen for Culture Study
https://annehelen.substack.com/p/memoir-of-a-broken-safety-net
Memoir of a Broken Safety Net

"What it can mean to survive deep loss and keep living without losing yourself entirely, without self-recrimination or self-punishment."

Culture Study
you can read and subscribe to Culture Study here: https://annehelen.substack.com/subscribe
Subscribe to Culture Study

Think more about the culture that surrounds you. Click to read Culture Study, by Anne Helen Petersen, a Substack publication.