Photo of Shawn Wong (c. 1975)
PHOTO BY NANCY WONG (circa 1975). Author Shawn Wong at his IBM typewriter in his San Francisco apartment at 780 Chestnut Street #3....
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Photo of Shawn Wong (c. 1975)
PHOTO BY NANCY WONG (circa 1975). Author Shawn Wong at his IBM typewriter in his San Francisco apartment at 780 Chestnut Street #3 in 1974. The images counterclockwise over his head are: a poster from the First Asian American Writers' Conference at the Oakland Museum, a...
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“The ‘story behind the story’ of No-No Boy: Shawn Wong Impresses at this Year’s Friends of the Libraries Lecture” via UW Libraries Blog
(Photo by Bruce Hemingway, courtesy of University of Washington). I was the keynote speaker for the 2020 Friends of UW Libraries Annual Lecture in January. I shared the publishing history of No-No Boy by John Okada it's importance as a part of Asian American literary history. Read an...
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Jan
“The Asian American Canon Breakers” via The New Yorker
Jeffery Paul Chan, Frank Chin, Lawson Fusao Inada, Shawn Wong, and Chan’s daughter Jennifer, photographed near San Quentin State Prison, in Marin County. (Photograph by Ken Gaetjen). This article from The New Yorker talks about the 1974 publication of “Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian-American Writers” edited...
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Dec
Interview by Bill Kenower for Author Magazine
I was recently interviewed by Bill Kenower for Author Magazine....
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Dec
“The Legacy of ‘No-No Boy’ via UW Magazine
Thank you to my colleague, Vince Schleitwiler, for this excellent and humbling essay on my 50-year journey with John Okada's novel, No-No Boy, published in the UW Magazine. Also, thank you to the UW Alumni Association for selecting No-No Boy as its Alumni Book Club...
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Dec
“Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers: How a Literary Origin Story Began with a Shout” via asianamericanwriting.com
My "Aiiieeeee!" origin story is out online on the Asian American Writing website. Forty-five years later the new edition of the landmark anthology has been published by the University of Washington Press with a new Foreward by Tara Fickle. Read an excerpt: "Think about that for a...
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Nov
“What’s at Stake in Keeping Asian American Classics in Print” via Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Author Shawn Wong at his IBM typewriter in his San Francisco apartment in 1974. The images counterclockwise over his head are: a poster from the First Asian American Writers' Conference at the Oakland Museum, a snapshot of Shawn as a child wearing a sailor's outfit,...
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Nov
“The Story of the Great Japanese-American Novel” via The New York Times
The New York Times story by Thessaly La Force on the rediscovery of No-No Boy is online today. It tells the beginning of my almost 50 year journey with this novel. Read an excerpt: "Their correspondence with Tuttle, the book’s publisher, revealed that Okada had been working...