And if you did, it was usually in one of these very few proscribed roles, and they were often as props. For most of my life, growing up, you didn’t see a whole lot of that kind of person on the screen. “Willis is an Asian-American, and specifically an Asian-American man. “The original thing that got me excited to tell the story this way was to give life - interior life, subjective consciousness - to someone who normally doesn’t get that treatment,” Yu says. On this week’s podcast, Yu, himself a writer for TV as well as a novelist, discusses the book and why he wrote it. It features an actor named Willis Wu, who has a very small role in a TV show. Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to ListenĬharles Yu’s “Interior Chinatown,” which won the National Book Award for fiction in November, is a satire about Hollywood’s treatment of Asian-Americans.
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