Interior Chinatown
''Interior Chinatown'' is a 2020 novel by Charles Yu. It is his second novel and was published by Pantheon Books on January 28, 2020. It won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. The novel was also longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Meda ...
'', as well as the short-story collections ''Third Class Superhero'' and ''Sorry Please Thank You''. In 2007 he was named a "5 under 35" honoree by the
National Book Foundation
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. In 2020, ''Interior Chinatown'' won the
National Book Award
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The Nat ...
for fiction.
Writing
In 2007, Yu was selected by the
National Book Foundation
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as one of its "5 Under 35", a program which highlights the work of the next generation of fiction writers by asking five previous
National Book Award
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The Nat ...
fiction Winners and Finalists to select one fiction writer under the age of 35 whose work they find particularly promising and exciting. Yu was selected for the honor by
Richard Powers
Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel ''The Echo Maker'' won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction.
Short stories
His fiction was cited for special mention in the
Pushcart Prize
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Anthology XXVIII, specifically "Problems for Self-Study" published in the ''
Harvard Review
''Harvard Review'' is a biannual literary journal published by Houghton Library at Harvard University.
History
In 1986 Stratis Haviaras, curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University, founded a quarterly periodical called ''Erato''. ...
''.
Yu also received the 2004
Sherwood Anderson
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Fiction Award from the ''
Mid-American Review
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'' for his story, "Third Class Superhero".
As for editing anthologies, Yu served as the Guest Editor for the ''Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy'' 2017 from ''
The Best American Series {{italic title
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'' and the publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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.
Novels
''How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe''
Center for the Study of Science Fiction
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at the
University of Kansas
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— and a runner up for the
Campbell Memorial Award
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. The book was also optioned by film director and writer Chris Columbus' production company,
1492 Pictures
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. The novel was further listed in ''Time'' magazine's Top 10 Fiction Books of 2010, ''
The New York Times
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Amazon.com
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's Top 10 SF/F Books for 2010.
''Interior Chinatown''
In 2020, Yu released his second novel, ''
Interior Chinatown
''Interior Chinatown'' is a 2020 novel by Charles Yu. It is his second novel and was published by Pantheon Books on January 28, 2020. It won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. The novel was also longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Meda ...
'', which uses the screenplay format to tell the tale of Willis Wu, the "Generic Asian Man" who is stuck playing "Background Oriental Male" and occasionally "Delivery Guy" in the fictional police procedural ''Black and White'' but who longs to be "Kung Fu Guy" on screens worldwide.Carolyn Kellog, The Washington Post, Charles Yu's ‘Interior Chinatown’ brilliantly skewers Hollywood typecasting, https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/charles-yus-interior-chinatown-brilliantly-skewers-hollywood-typecasting/2020/01/27/4d04be48-3711-11ea-bf30-ad313e4ec754_story.html On January 27, 2020, Yu appeared on ''
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
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'' to discuss the book, as well as the lack of on-screen representation for Asian Americans and the Asian American "
model minority
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myth". Yu further appeared on NPR's ''
Weekend Edition
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'' with Scott Simon, January 25, 2020, and on the
Los Angeles Review of Books
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Radio Hour with Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf on February 3, 2020 to further discuss the novel.
''Interior Chinatown'' won the 2020
National Book Award for Fiction
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, after being announced as a finalist, and made the Long List of the 2021
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
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. and was a Finalist or Shortlisted for the 2020
Prix Médicis étranger
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awards.
In an interview with
Timothy Tau
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for ''
Hyphen
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'', Yu remarked that his influences for the novel included
Paul Beatty
Paul Beatty (born June 9, 1962) is an American author and an associate professor of writing at Columbia University. In 2016, he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Booker Prize for his novel '' The Sellout''. It was the first time ...
's
Man Booker Prize
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-winning novel '' The Sellout'' as well as the "cyclical structure" of the film ''
Groundhog Day
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''.Timothy Tau, INTERIOR CHINATOWN WINS NATIONAL BOOK AWARD: Q&A with Charles Yu, Hyphen Magazine, https://hyphenmagazine.com/blog/2020/11/interior-chinatown-wins-national-book-award
Screenplays and TV writing
In 2016, Yu was a story editor for ten episodes of the first season of the 2016
HBO
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series ''
Westworld
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Yu's non-fiction, essays, book reviews, journalism and other writing have also appeared online and in print in ''
The Atlantic
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It was founded in 1857 in Boston, ...
'' ( "The Pre-pandemic Universe Was the Fiction"), ''
Slate
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'' (various reviews and articles on video games such as ''
L.A. Noire
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'' and ''
Portal 2
''Portal 2'' is a 2011 puzzle-platform video game developed by Valve Corporation, Valve for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The digital PC version is distributed online by Valve's Steam (service), Steam service, while al ...
''), ''The Wall Street Journal'' ("Novelist Charles Yu on St. George California Reserve Agricole Rum"), ''Time'' ("What It's Like to Never Ever See Yourself on TV"), ''The Offing'' ("Thirteen Ways of Looking at 45" about the 45th president of the United States,
Donald Trump
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Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...
), ''
The New York Times Style Magazine
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'' ("George R. R. Martin, Fantasy's Reigning King"), ''
McSweeney's Internet Tendency
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Initially publishing the literary journal'' Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern'', the company has moved to ...
'' ("What Kind of World Is This?"), '' The Morning News'' ("Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar", a review) and ''
Polygon
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'' ("What future artificial intelligence will think of our puny human video games").
He is interviewed by and also interviews
Lev Grossman
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Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short story writer.
Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophicall ...
(stating that he has "read more books by Roth than probably any other contemporary writer"),
Don DeLillo
Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, per ...
, and
Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Allen Lethem (; born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel, ''Gun, with Occasional Music'', a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was publishe ...
in installments of the "Influenced by" series published by
Jaime Clarke
Jaime Clarke is an American novelist and editor. He is a founding editor of the literary journal ''Post Road'' and co-owner, with his wife, of Newtonville Books, an independent bookstore in Boston.
Early life and education
Clarke was born in ...
in ''The Believer'' as well.
He has also written reviews in ''
The New York Times Book Review
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'' of books (novels or short story collections) from
Neal Stephenson
Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, and baroque.
Stephenson's work exp ...
Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde (born 11 January 1961) is an English novelist, whose first novel, ''The Eyre Affair'', was published in 2001. He is known mainly for his ''Thursday Next'' novels, but has published two books in the loosely connected ''The Big Over ...
Taiwan
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.
Yu graduated from the
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
, majoring and receiving a Bachelor in Arts in
molecular
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and
cellular biology
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and a minor in
creative writing
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, where he "wrote poetry, not fiction" and also "took several poetry workshops with people like
Thom Gunn
Thomson William "Thom" Gunn (29 August 1929 – 25 April 2004) was an English poet who was praised for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement, and his later poetry in America, even after moving towards a looser, ...
and
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Scott Reed (born February 22, 1938) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, composer, playwright, editor and publisher known for his satirical works challenging American political culture. Perhaps his best-known work is '' M ...
". He obtained his
Juris Doctor
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and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. The J.D. is the standard degree obtained to practice law ...
from
Columbia Law School
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.Charles Yu, LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesyu Yu worked as an associate at
Sullivan & Cromwell
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and
Bryan Cave
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In 2018, Bryan Cave and Berwin Leighton Paisner me ...
as a
corporate attorney
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Roles and responsibilities
The role of a corporate lawyer is to ...
, as the Director of Business Affairs at
Digital Domain
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, and as an associate general counsel at
Belkin International
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before becoming a full-time fiction and TV writer.
He lives near
Irvine, California
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, with his wife, Michelle Jue, and their two children, Sophia and Dylan. His brother is the actor and TV writer
Kelvin Yu
Kelvin Yu (born 1979) is an American actor and writer.
Early life and education
Yu was born to Yu Ming-chuan and Lin Ling-juan. He grew up in Los Angeles, where he currently resides. He is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles ...
.
Awards and accolades
* 2020: National Book Award for Fiction for the novel ''Interior Chinatown''.
*2017: Writers Guild of America Award Nominations: Drama Series and New Series for writing on
HBO
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's ''
Westworld
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Lightspeed Magazine
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'' November 2010, Issue 6
* 2010: Second Place,
John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
The John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, or Campbell Memorial Award, is an annual award presented by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas to the author of the best science fiction no ...
for the novel ''How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe''
* 2010: Second Best Science Fiction Novel, from the John Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn
Center for the Study of Science Fiction
Founded by Science Fiction/Fantasy Writers Association Grand Master and Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductee James E. Gunn, the J Wayne and Elsie M Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction is an endowed research and educational institution ...
at the
University of Kansas
The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and several satellite campuses, research and educational centers, medical centers, and classes across the state of Kansas. Tw ...
for the novel ''How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe''
* 2007: Named a "5 under 35" honoree by the
National Book Foundation
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by
Richard Powers
Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel ''The Echo Maker'' won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction.Robert Olen Butler Prize The Robert Olen Butler Prize is a prize for short fiction awarded by Del Sol Press in conjunction with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Robert Olen Butler, who chooses the winning story. The winning stories are also collected into an annual antholo ...
for the short story "My Last Days As Me", initially published in ''Sou'wester''
* 2004: Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award for the short story "Third Class Superhero", initially published in ''
Mid-American Review
''Mid-American Review'' (''MAR'') is an international literary journal dedicated to publishing contemporary fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and translations. Founded in 1981, ''MAR'' is a publication of the Department of English and the College of Ar ...
John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
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Center for the Study of Science Fiction
Founded by Science Fiction/Fantasy Writers Association Grand Master and Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductee James E. Gunn, the J Wayne and Elsie M Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction is an endowed research and educational institution ...
, The
University of Kansas
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** One of ''
Time
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'' magazine's Top 10 Fiction Books of 2010
** One of ''
The New York Times
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100 Notable Books of 2010
** One of
Amazon.com
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's Top 10 SF/F Books for 2010
* ''
Interior Chinatown
''Interior Chinatown'' is a 2020 novel by Charles Yu. It is his second novel and was published by Pantheon Books on January 28, 2020. It won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. The novel was also longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Meda ...
'' (2020, Pantheon Books. )
** Winner, 2020
National Book Award for Fiction
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** Longlist, 2021
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
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** Finalist/Shortlisted, 2020
Prix Médicis étranger
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awards
Short story collections
* ''Third Class Superhero'' (2006, Harvest Books )
** "Third-Class Hero" originally appearing as "Class Three Superhero" in ''
Mid-American Review
''Mid-American Review'' (''MAR'') is an international literary journal dedicated to publishing contemporary fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and translations. Founded in 1981, ''MAR'' is a publication of the Department of English and the College of Ar ...
'' , Vol. XXV, No. 2
*** The 2004 Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award from ''
Mid-American Review
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''
** "My Last Days As Me" originally appearing in ''Sou'wester''
*** Reprinted in the '' Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories 2004'' and a 2005 Robert Olen Butler Prize Winner
** "Problems for Self-Study" originally appearing in ''
Harvard Review
''Harvard Review'' is a biannual literary journal published by Houghton Library at Harvard University.
History
In 1986 Stratis Haviaras, curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University, founded a quarterly periodical called ''Erato''. ...
'', Issue No. 23 (Fall 2002) (re-published at Harvard Review Online on April 18, 2011)
*** Yu's first published story
* ''Sorry Please Thank You: Stories'' (2012, Pantheon Books, Random House. )
Uncollected short stories
* "Systems", ''
The New York Times Magazine
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'', July 7, 2020
* "Bounty", Xprize ANA "Avatars.Inc" Anthology (eBook and also online), March 2020
* The Future of Work: Placebo",
Wired
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, December 17, 2018
* "America, The Ride", '' Lightspeed'', November 2018, Issue 102 (anthologized in ''Resist: Tales from a Future Worth Fighting Against'', edited by Hugh Howey, Gary Whitta & Christie Yant (Broad Reach Publishing 2018))
* "NPC", '' Lightspeed'', September 2018, Issue 100 (anthologized in ''Press Start to Play'', edited by Daniel H. Wilson & John Joseph Adams (Vintage Books 2015))
* "Bookkeeper, Narrator, Gunslinger", '' Lightspeed'', April 2017, Issue 83 (anthologized in ''Dead Man's Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West'', edited by John Joseph Adams (Titan Books, 2014))
* "Subtext®: It Knows What You're Thinking Stop Thinking", ''
Wired
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'', December 13, 2016
* "Fable", ''
The New Yorker
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'', May 23, 2016, Fiction (May 30, 2016 Issue)
* "Re: re: Microwave in the break room doing weird things to fabric of spacetime",
Motherboard
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The Atlantic
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It was founded in 1857 in Boston, ...
'', April 15, 2020
* "What It's Like to Never See Yourself on TV", ''
TIME
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'', January 21, 2020
* "George R. R. Martin, Fantasy's Reigning King", ''
The New York Times Style Magazine
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'', October 15, 2018
* "What Kind of World Is This?", ''
McSweeney's Internet Tendency
McSweeney's Publishing is an American non-profit publishing house founded by Dave Eggers in 1998 and headquartered in San Francisco.
Initially publishing the literary journal'' Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern'', the company has moved to ...
'', September 7, 2018
* "What future artificial intelligence will think of our puny human video games", ''
Polygon
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'', January 9, 2018
* "Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar", '' The Morning News''
* "Thirteen Ways of Looking at 45", ''The Offing'', May 2, 2017
* "Novelist Charles Yu on St. George California Reserve Agricole Rum", ''
The Wall Street Journal
''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...
'', December 26, 2014
* "Gaming Club 2011: I have seen the future, and it is full of noobs like me.",
Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. ...
, December 15, 2011
* "L.A. Noire: The characters in the most realistic video games are still basically puppets.",
Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. ...
, December 14, 2011
* "Portal 2: How playing a video game is like writing fiction.",
Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. ...
, December 13, 2011
Book reviews
* "Short Stories From Joe Hill, Spiked With Mayhem and Evil", NYT Book Review, October 1, 2019
* "Neal Stephenson's New Novel — Part Tech, Part Fantasy — Dazzles", NYT Book Review, June 14, 2019
* "A Brilliantly Funny and Slightly Bonkers New Novel From Jasper Fforde", NYT Book Review, February 28, 2019
* "‘The Lost Time Accidents,’ by John Wray", NYT Book Review, February 21, 2016
* "‘Seveneves,’ by Neal Stephenson", NYT Book Review, May 31, 2015
HBO
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's ''
Westworld
''Westworld'' is an American science fiction- thriller media franchise that began with the 1973 film ''Westworld'', written and directed by Michael Crichton. The film depicts a technologically advanced Wild-West-themed amusement park populat ...
'' (co-written with
Lisa Joy
Lisa Joy (born May 23, 1977) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and attorney. She is best known as the co-creator, writer, director, and executive producer of the HBO science-fiction drama series ''Westworld'' (2016–2022). For he ...
HBO
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's '' Here and Now'' (original airdate: April 8, 2018)
* "The Mysteries", Season 1, Episode 6,
AMC
AMC may refer to:
Film and television
* AMC Theatres, an American movie theater chain
* AMC Networks, an American entertainment company
** AMC (TV channel)
** AMC+, streaming service
** AMC Networks International, an entertainment company
*** AM ...
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Lodge 49
''Lodge 49'' is an American comedy-drama television series created by Jim Gavin. It aired on the cable television network AMC in the United States from August 6, 2018, to October 14, 2019, spanning two seasons and 20 episodes. The title alludes ...
'' (original airdate: September 10, 2018)
* "Chapter 23", Season 3, Episode 4, FX's ''
Legion
Legion may refer to:
Military
* Roman legion, the basic military unit of the ancient Roman army
* Spanish Legion, an elite military unit within the Spanish Army
* Legion of the United States, a reorganization of the United States Army from 179 ...
'' (co-written with Olivia Dufault) (original airdate: July 15, 2019)
* "Mr. Greer", Season 2, Episode 4,
Facebook Watch
Facebook Watch is a video on demand service operated by American company Meta Platforms (previously named Facebook, Inc.). The company announced the service in August 2017 and was available to all U.S. users that month. Facebook Watch's original ...
's ''
Sorry for Your Loss
''Sorry for Your Loss'' is an American drama series created by Kit Steinkellner that premiered on September 18, 2018 on Facebook Watch. The series follows a young widow and her family as they struggle to cope with the unexpected death of her husb ...
The Bat Segundo Show
''The Bat Segundo Show'' was a podcast based in New York City run by writer and literary critic Edward Champion between 2004 and 2012. It was revived in mid-2013.
The program features comprehensive interviews with prominent figures in arts and ...