Episode 533: Hua Hsu

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Hua Hsu is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His book Stay True won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for memoir. “I've worked as a journalist … for quite a while. … But this [book] was the thing that was always in the back of my mind. Like, this was the thing that a lot of that was in service of. Just becoming better at describing a song or describing the look of someone's face—these were all things that I implicitly understood as skills I needed to acquire. ... It is sort of an origin story for why I got so obsessive about writing.” Show notes: @huahsu byhuahsu.com Hsu on Longform Hsu on Longform Podcast Hsu's New Yorker archive 03:00 A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific (Harvard University Press • 2016) 30:00 "Randall Park Breaks Out of Character" (New Yorker • Feb 2023) 33:00 Shortcomings (Adrian Tomine • Drawn & Quarterly • 2007) 39:00 "What Conversation Can Do For Us" (New Yorker • Mar 2023) 39:00 "J. Crew and the Paradoxes of Prep" (New Yorker • Mar 2023) 39:00 "The Many Afterlives of Vincent Chin" (New Yorker • Jun 2022) 39:00 "How Wayne Wang Faces Failure" (New Yorker • Jun 2022) 39:00 "Maxine Hong Kingston’s Genre-Defying Life and Work" (New Yorker • Jun 2020) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:23.1	So why is it so hard to get insurance to pay?
0:27.4	That's next time on The Weeds.
0:42.4	Hello and welcome to the Long Foreign Podcast.
0:44.9	I'm Aaron Lammer, here with my co-hosts Max Linsky and Evan Ratliffe.
0:49.7	Hey Aaron.
0:50.7	Hey you guys, you're both looking great today.
0:52.8	I just want to say that.
0:54.0	Thanks.
0:54.5	It's a good looking day for both of you.
0:56.4	I told you guys you could go ahead and do this introduction without me.
0:59.6	That was a lie, because this is my episode.
1:02.8	I talked to Hua Hsiu, Hua has been on the show previously, but many, many years ago,
1:09.9	like half a decade ago, plus.
1:12.2	And it was great to get to see him again, because I really, really enjoyed his new book,
1:17.1	a new ish book, it came out last year.
1:19.2	The book is called Stay True, or depending on how you read the cover, Stay True Hua
1:24.8	Shu.
1:25.8	It won the Pulitzer Prize from memoir a couple days ago.
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