Jane Wong, MEET ME TONIGHT IN ATLANTIC CITY: A Memoir

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 1 October 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Zibby speaks to creative writing professor and author Jane Wong about Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, an incandescent, blazing memoir that she describes as a lovesong to her mother and to growing up in a low income, working-class Chinese American immigrant family. Jane talks about her family’s immigration story and fractured American Dream; her father’s gambling addiction; her beautiful, lyrical writing style (she’s a poet!); and her recent trip to Atlantic City–a powerful, emotional return. She also describes her writing process and her recent book tour, from Seattle to New York City’s Chinatown, with her mother by her side.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
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0:53.3	2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is basically
0:56.5	my favorite thing. Enjoy it. Jane Wong is the author of Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
1:06.4	a memoir. Jane Wong's debut memoir, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, is out now from Tin House. She is also the author of two poetry collections, How Not to Be Afraid of Everything, and Overpour. A restaurant baby, she grew up in a Chinese-American takeout restaurant on the Jersey Shore and is an associate professor at Western Washington University, where she teaches creative writing and Asian
1:27.8	American literature. She is also an interdisciplinary artist, and her most recent exhibition was
1:33.0	Nourish at the Richmond Art Gallery in 2022. Welcome, Jane. Thanks so much for coming on
1:38.4	Mom's Don't have time to read books to discuss Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City. Thanks, I'm so
1:43.3	excited to be here.
1:44.9	Oh, okay. Can you tell listeners a little bit about your memoir and even why you decided to
1:50.0	write a memoir to begin with? That's a great question. Oh, goodness. I'm a poet kind of, I guess,
1:56.3	like, I don't know, in my deepest heart, I suppose. And so writing memoir was pretty scary for me
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