It’s really daunting to educate yourself on a subject. It’s very difficult to know where to start, because you don’t know what you don’t know, so you don’t know what you should know. This is how I felt when I decided to read more feminist writing. I rarely read non-fiction, and when I do, they’re normally memoirs or biographies: books that still carry a story. I hadn’t read factual books or academic writing since my school days, and this time I was …
Author: Liadh Blake
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I’ve never been one to read a lot of short stories, as I’ve always just preferred novels. I like how novels can go more in depth into characters, and how …
In the first part of my interview with Yangsze Choo, we discussed the influence of her Malaysian-Chinese heritage in The Night Tiger. In the second part, we talk about her approach to …
New York Times best-selling novelist Yangsze Choo is fourth generation Malaysian of Chinese descent. Both of her novels — The Ghost Bride and The Night Tiger — include Malaysian-Chinese culture …
What first intrigued me about Yangsze Choo’s The Night Tiger was its Malaysian setting and that its main character was Malaysian-Chinese. I’m half Irish and half Malaysian-Chinese, and the books …
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