R.F. Kruang's Yellowface

Teen Creeps

Kelly Nugent and Lindsay Katai

Arts, Book, Club, Social, Comedy, Books

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 103 minutes

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This week Kelly and Katai read "Yellowface" by R.F. Kuang, the story of a white woman who steals her dead Asian friend's unpublished manuscript and is somehow surprised when she gets canceled. They talk online dread, the generational trauma of being racist, being unable to access greatness, and DISCOURSE, DISCOURSE, DISCOURSE. SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEEN CREEPS PATREON to get ad free episodes, bonus episodes, merch, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teencreeps CONNECT W/ TEEN CREEPS: https://twitter.com/teencreepspod https://www.instagram.com/teencreepspod https://www.facebook.com/teencreepspod BUY TEEN CREEPS MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/teen-creeps TEEN CREEPS IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/teen-creeps *All creepy opinions expressed are those of the hosts and guests. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Forever. week on the podcast. R.F. Clangs, Yellowface.
0:14.0	Hello,
0:15.0	Hello,
0:18.0	Welcome to Team Creeps the podcast that discusses why Pulp Fiction.
0:25.6	I'm one of your host, Lindsay Gaitai.
0:27.2	I'm going to one of your host, Kelly Nugent.
0:29.0	And today we are discussing Yellowface by Araquang,
0:32.9	author of The Poppy War, which we just covered.
0:36.0	Mm-hmm.
0:38.7	This book was so stressful.
0:41.0	I feel like this book, while not within the genre of book we normally cover.
0:47.0	It is within the genre of tangent that we normally freak out on.
0:53.8	And I would say like the description did make it seem more like
0:58.4	it was a teen creeps-esque book.
1:01.0	It made it seem like there was more like intrigue and death and murder and so forth.
1:07.0	Didn't really turn out to being quite like that.
1:11.0	It was more just like devoting four hours of your life to
1:14.9	researching a Twitter beef, which is like it was so accurate to what a Twitter beef is.
1:25.0	It was just like disgustingly, disgustingly realistic of what,
1:31.0	yeah, how this exact thing would play out and I really enjoyed it I really enjoyed this one too
1:38.0	except for wanting to throw up for four hours straight I literally texted you I was like my stomach's been in knots for hours. It, I really enjoyed it. I felt like also it really captured and there were some like vague references to things that are drama now,
1:57.1	that's surfacing now.
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