Interior Chinatown A Novel. The writing, the format, even the font lean heavily into the screenplay theme. Wow, I love this book so much.
Interior Chinatown represents yet another stellar destination in the journey of a sui generis author of seemingly limitless skill and ambition." —Jeff VanderMeer, The New York Times Book Review From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture. 'Interior Chinatown' Puts That Guy In The Background Front And Center Charles Yu's new novel follows a TV actor who often gets stuck playing generic Asian men. Interior Chinatown represents yet another stellar destination in the journey of a sui generis author of seemingly limitless skill and ambition." —Jeff VanderMeer, The New York Times Book Review From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture. Interior Chinatown represents yet another stellar destination in the journey of a sui generis author of seemingly limitless skill and ambition." —Jeff VanderMeer, The New York Times Book Review From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture.
Yu's new book, Interior Chinatown, seeks to splice the mediums.
The story is straightforward but the book itself is structured as a screenplay. Charles Yu has so much to say about the formulas that make up pop-culture storytelling, and the ways those formulas intersect with stereotypes. The novel uses the narrative structure of the screenplay format to tell the.