What to Read When You Want to Experience Life Abroad
Katya Cengel shares a reading list to celebrate her new memoir, FROM CHERNOBYL WITH LOVE.
...moreKatya Cengel shares a reading list to celebrate her new memoir, FROM CHERNOBYL WITH LOVE.
...moreA list of books about Korea (both North and South) and by Koreans that Rumpus editors have read and enjoyed.
...moreThis is how gay-male-identifying, biological women become straight chicks. Investigative journalism morphs into emotional memoir.
...moreTo research her book Without You, There Is No Us, Suki Kim worked undercover as an ESL teacher in North Korea. Kim was reluctant to call the work a memoir, believing that to do so “trivialized” her investigative reporting. The result was a backlash from critics, who called her undercover methods “dishonest.” At The New Republic, Kim responds to her critics: Here […]
...moreSuki Kim discusses her new memoir, Without You, There Is No Us, going undercover for research, growing up as an immigrant to the U.S., and spending six months trapped in North Korea.
...moreEven now, writing in Manhattan, my heart beats faster recalling that initial meeting. Oddly enough, the first word that came to my mind was beauty.
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