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1 month ago | 
newyorker.com | Bryan Washington
We moved to Tokyo from Dallas because of my husband’s job, an unexplainable tech gig. When Craig told me about the promotion, he swore it would change his life. I didn’t want anything to do with it—I had no interest in Japan. Couldn’t find the country on a map, couldn’t speak a lick of Japanese. And he fielded most of our expenses. It’ll be an adventure, Craig said. Most travellers don’t survive their journeys, I said. Always a well of optimism, Craig said, laughing.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Bryan Washington
4 hours agoThe author discusses his story “Hatagaya Lore.” This interview was featured in the Books & Fiction newsletter, which delivers the stories behind the stories, along with our latest fiction. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. In “Hatagaya Lore,” your story in this week’s issue, a man moves to Tokyo …
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Bryan Washington
For a few months, I stayed with my aunt’s friend in Midtown, back when she could still afford to live there. Now it’s filled with condos, and they’re all a trillion dollars a month. But, in those days, she owned the house, and also a coffeehouse a few blocks away. I was too broke to pay rent, so every morning saw me behind the counter. This was the arrangement.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
audible.com | C. Riley Snorton |Morgan Rogers |Hari Ziyad |Bryan Washington
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America's first prominent transsexual, narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives. Their erasure from trans history masks the ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. In Black on Both Sides, C.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
booksaremagic.squarespace.com | Bryan Washington |Joseph Thomas
This episode, Marketing Director Aatia interviewed Emma Copley Eisenberg, author of Housemates, a novel that tells the story of queer people forging community in a changing neighborhood in Philadelphia. Bernie, the photographer and Leah, the writer, form an intense bond and embark on a road trip in pursuit of their art, capturing America on film and on the page. The two discuss roommate dynamics, community building, and HGTV original shows. AatiaToday I'm joined by Emma Copley Eisenberg.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Bryan Washington |Josie Mitchell
Early in Bryan Washington’s novel Family Meal, Cam, a young Black man, gets a notification on his phone while walking home from his bar job. A stranger has shared his location on a hook-up app; there’s no photograph of his face, just a dick pic, but Cam eventually finds him, sitting on a park bench in the dark. The guy asks if he has a condom, but Cam tells him not to worry. When the stranger asks if he’s sure, Cam snaps: ‘Are you a fucking doctor?’ They have sex and go their separate ways.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
ensemblemagazine.co.nz | Bryan Washington
For the fourth year in a row, before we head off on our summer holidays armed with an overly ambitious stack of reading material, we asked our cool friends to share their beach read recommendations with us. Forever rallying against the narrow notion that a beach read has to be frothy and light, we asked for whatever their interpretation of a good beach read is. For some that translated into a meaty non-fiction tome packed with scientific facts, for others it’s pure escapism.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
itsonlyzach.substack.com | Bryan Washington |Paul Murray |Alexis Hall |Zach Wilcha
Even though I’ve already read at least one book this year reporting that social media will destroy us all, sending us all through mental health deterioration while it unravels democracy, I’ll likely remain on Facebook forever because of its purest expression and sole remaining utility: the neighborhood group page.
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Oct 28, 2023 | 
bookreporter.com | Bryan Washington
Employing his trademark sensitivity and luxurious descriptions of food, sex and travel, award-winning author Bryan Washington chronicles the reunion of two friends after an unthinkable loss in FAMILY MEAL. When Cam spots his childhood best friend, TJ, across the gay bar where he bartends, he thinks, “It’s like the m-----f----- doesn’t even recognize me.” But Cam sure does recognize TJ, even if his hair has fluffed out and he wears a smirk that Cam has never seen cross his face before.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
newspub.live | Bryan Washington
Instead of working a well-paying “bank job” as he did in California, Cam is now working at a bar, and fearing its inevitable buyout in a gentrifying neighborhood. He lives with his boss, and is haunted by the ghost of Kai, who was killed in a traffic stop turned deadly. With no goals beyond his next lay, he sees TJ, whom he has not contacted since his return, at the bar. TJ still works and lives with his mother in her bakery, and has never gotten a chance to leave.
