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 ...

BILL MOYERS: What did they think when TYPICAL AMERICAN, your first book, was such a success? GISH JEN: Well, they were happy enough. It was fine. But there was a moment where suddenly it became ...

Here in Cambridge’s Neighborhood Nine is your typical ... the book, subtitled “Art, Culture and the Interdependent Self,” at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. She has gone by Gish Jen for ...

By Joumana Khatib Gish Jen’s fans can take some solace when they finish one of her books: The characters ... an infant in Jen’s 1991 debut, “Typical American.” A character from her 1999 ...

Gish Jen has published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The New Republic, as well as in numerous textbooks and anthologies, including The ...

In three previous novels and a book of short fiction, Gish Jen draped her ... to reveal themselves. In “Typical American,” readers came to understand, through Jen’s adroit storytelling ...

What does a typical American family look like? This is a question Jen Gish loves tackling in her work ... "When I was writing this book in a slightly unconventional form, which was exciting ...

Diversity is a defining characteristic of our fractured times and novelist/essayist Gish Jen (“Typical ... book was inspired by Jen’s William E. Massey, Sr. Lectures in the History of American ...

Gish Jen has published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The New Republic, as well as in numerous textbooks and anthologies, including The ...