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(Some kind of) Peace on the Korean Peninsula… PEN World Voices hosts Korean writers Hwang and Ko
Saturday night PEN World Voices hosted conversations between Korean novelist, Hwang Sok-Yong, and Korean poet, Ko Un. I attended the event with my mother, relying on her perspective on all matters Korean to provide an additional layer of interest to the evening. As anticipated, I…
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Comedy and Grief at CUNY with Joan Didion and W.S. Merwin
Last night the CUNY Center for Humanities hosted last year’s National Book Award winners Joan Didion and W.S. Merwin for a talk on “The Writing Life.” I attended the event with Michelle, who posted the event on her website. Fortunately, we arrived early and grabbed…
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Even Korean girls get the blues
As a Korean-American and also as a non-native English speaker/writer, I have begun to develop a theory about my literature, which I suspect may not be politically correct. By my literature, I refer to the literature that I imagine inside myself-- the one that makes…
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