Revisited: "The Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu

LeVar Burton Reads

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Arts, Performing Arts

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🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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An immigrant mother tries to bond with her American-born son by creating a magical paper menagerie. This story appears in Ken Liu's collection THE PAPER MENAGERIE AND OTHER STORIES, available now from Saga Press. Ken Liu's forthcoming novel, THE VEILED THRONE, is the third installment of THE DANDELION DYNASTY and will be available November 2nd from Saga Press. Content advisory: Hospitals, death of a parent

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Lovar Burton and this is Lovar Burton Reads.
0:10.4	In every episode I hand pick a different piece of short fiction and a read it to.
0:16.3	The only thing these stories have in common is that I love them and I hope you will too.
0:25.8	Since we're between seasons and I know our back catalog can be a little daunting, I wanted
0:30.9	to rerun some of our favorite episodes so you can, you know, become familiar with the
0:36.1	show.
0:37.3	This one is by Ken Lu, who is a brilliant writer, lawyer and translator who I've read several
0:43.7	times before on the show, including for one of our live episodes.
0:48.1	But this one is the story that I hear wrecks people in the best way possible.
0:53.7	Don't say I didn't warn you to have some tissues handy.
0:58.8	Enjoy.
1:03.3	Today the story is from the award-winning science fiction and fantasy author Ken Lu.
1:10.0	And the story is called the Paper Managerie.
1:12.8	It's from his collection of short fiction, the Paper Managerie and other stories from
1:16.8	saga press.
1:18.6	The Paper Managerie has won the Hugo, the Nebula, the World Fantasy Award.
1:25.7	Ken Lu himself is a very multi-talented person.
1:30.9	He's not only an author, he translates a lot of other people's works from the Chinese
1:36.4	into English.
1:37.8	He's a lawyer.
1:39.4	He programs.
1:40.4	He's the coder.
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