I proceeded to read pretty much every book on its shelves, including Camus’s “The Stranger,” the cover of which I can still see, with that huge Algerian sun. What in the world, I remember ...

Gish Jen has published ... (Knopf). All three books are widely taught. A graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Jen has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation ...

In her new book Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self , celebrated Asian-American novelist Gish Jen turns her attention to non-fiction. A collection of lectures delivered at Harvard ...

The magic of Gish Jen’s latest novel ... microchips to evade detection by government drones. In many ways, this book is about feistiness and not buckling under cruel and unjust bureaucracies.

and one other book of short stories. Of her first novel, 1992’s “Typical American,” The New York Times said, “no paraphrase could capture the intelligence of Gish Jen’s prose ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Karen Thompson Walker THE RESISTERS By Gish Jen Gish Jen’s timely fifth novel ...

Jen, who looked at family identity in her previous book, "The Love Wife," spoke to Reuters about difference, perspective and outsiders. Q: There are a lot of layers of difference and insiders ...

In critically acclaimed novels such as "Mona in the Promised Land" and "World and Town," Gish Jen explores the sense ... You embarked on writing this book because there was “something in your ...

Culture and the Interdependent Self,” at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. She has gone by Gish Jen for some time, but she was born Lillian Jen. You might say that the name change was a kind of ...

As she sits down to write, author Gish Jen makes a list of everyone ... Last week, we hosted a discussion with Jen about the book. Moderated by Meghan Hayden, owner of River Bend Bookshop in ...

Book TV’s In Depth 2018 Fiction Edition continued with novelist Gish Jen. Gish Jen’s books include Typical American, Mona in… Lenora Chu talked about her book, Little Soldiers: An American ...