Episode 181: Wesley Yang

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Wesley Yang writes for New York and other publications. “If a person remains true to some part of their experience, no matter what it is, and they present it in full candor, there’s value to that. People will recognize it. Once I knew that was true, I knew I could do this.” Thanks to MailChimp, Home Chef, and Trunk Club for sponsoring this week's episode. Show Notes: @wesyang Yang on Longform [02:00] "Paper Tigers" (New York • May 2011) [10:00] "The Snakehead" (Patrick Radden Keefe • New Yorker • Apr 2006) [24:00] "Eddie Huang Against the World" (New York Times Magazine • Feb 2015) [24:00] "The Face of Seung-Hui Cho" (n+1 • Jun 2011) [27:00] "The Life and Afterlife of Aaron Swartz" (New York • Feb 2013) [32:00] "The True Import of Present Dialogue, Black vs. Negro (For Peppe, Who Will Ultimately Judge Our Efforts)" (Nikki Giovanni) [42:00] "Longform Podcast #168: Ta-Nehisi Coates" (Nov 2015) [47:00] "We Out Here" (Harper’s Magazine • Mar 2016) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:25.0	Frosty Day. This week on the show I talked to Wesley Yang. Do you guys know Wesley Yang? I've seen Wesley Yang's work. Yes, he wrote a very piece that caused a big splash a few years ago for New York magazine called Paper Tigers, which I guess you would say is about the Asian American
1:46.3	experience for lack of better terminology. But he's written a bunch of other interesting stuff for
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