CHARLES YU is the author of four books, including Interior Chinatown (the winner of the 2020 National Book Award for fiction), and the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (a New York Times Notable Book and a Time magazine best book of the year). He received the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award and was nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards for his work on the HBO series, Westworld. He has also written for shows on FX, AMC, and HBO. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired, among other publications. Together with TaiwaneseAmerican.org, he established the Betty L. Yu and Jin C. Yu Writing Prizes, in honor of his parents.
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"Fresh and beautiful. . . . Interior Chinatown represents yet
another stellar destination in the journey of a sui generis author
of seemingly limitless skill and ambition.” —The New York
Times Book Review
“[A] sharply observed, darkly humorous evocation of the Asian
American experience.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Satire at its best, a shattering and darkly comic send-up of
racial stereotyping in Hollywood . . . presented, perfectly, in the
sharply hewed format of a screenplay. . . . Peeling back
caricatures to paint vivid individual portraits, Yu eviscerates
generalizations with the devastatingly specific.”
—Vanity Fair
“Bold, even groundbreaking. . . . Interior Chinatown solders
together mordant wit and melancholic whimsy to produce a moving
exploration of race and assimilation.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Interior Chinatown . . . recalls the humorous and heartfelt short
stories of George Saunders, the metafictional high jinks of Mark
Leyner, and films like The Truman Show.”
—The New York Times
“An inventive satire about racial stereotyping.”
—Maureen Corrigan, NPR
“Meticulously crafted. . . . Yu tells us about ourselves with his
haunting depictions of the immigrant experience, familial
relationships, and the abiding desire to break from the pressures
of conformity and live an authentic life.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books
“Part novel, part screenplay, part screed, and part sociology, this
National Book Award winner is always funny and pretty savage.”
—Vulture
“Yu has a devilish good time poking fun at the racially blinkered
ways of Hollywood. . . . [Interior Chinatown is] rollicking fun,
and its reclamation of Asian American history, with all its
attendant sorrows and hopes, holds out the possibility of a new,
true story ahead.”
—New York Journal of Books
“Honest, funny, sad, and necessary satire.”
—Thrillist
“Like nothing you’ve read before—a moving and transportive work
abounding with risks that pay off.”
—InsideHook
“Passionate and clever. . . . A caustic, absurd, and endearing
exploration of Asian American stereotypes, police procedurals, and
the immigrant experience.”
—Shelf Awareness
“A stunning novel about identity, race, societal expectations, and
crippling anxiety told with humor and affection and a deep
understanding of human nature.”
—The Washington Independent Review of Books
“Conflates history, sociology, and ethnography with the timeless
evils of racism, sexism, and elitism in a multigenerational epic
that’s both rollicking entertainment and scathing commentary.”
—Booklist (starred review)
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