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Apr 9, 2024 | 
bookriot.com | Jinwoo Chong |Shehan Karunatilaka |Juliet Jacques |Laura Sackton
Flatiron Books, publisher of The Familiar by Leigh BardugoSet in the Spanish Golden Age, during a time of high‑stakes political intrigue and glittering wealth, The Familiar follows Luzia, a servant in the household of an impoverished Spanish nobleman who reveals a talent for little miracles. Her social‑climbing mistress demands Luzia use her gifts to win over Madrid’s most powerful players but what begins as simple amusement takes a dangerous turn.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
guernicamag.com | Jinwoo Chong
Photo by Castorly Stock via Pexels Hud told me he didn’t love me anymore around one or two in the morning, just after the television in our bedroom hit its sleep timer and shut itself off. I was typically awake when the shutoff happened. My body liked to keep me up most nights, just to see the screen go dark and the low-volume audio fuzz finally cut out.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
everand.com | Jinwoo Chong
Photo by Castorly Stock via Pexels Hud told me he didn’t love me anymore around one or two in the morning, just after the television in our bedroom hit its sleep timer and shut itself off. I was typically awake when the shutoff happened. My body liked to keep me up most nights, just to see the screen go dark and the low-volume audio fuzz finally cut out. “What did you say?” I lifted my head, blinking my eyes.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
princetonlibrary.libnet.info | Karen Bao |Paul Halpern |Jinwoo Chong
This program will be held in person at the library and will also be available to view as livestream on the library's YouTube channel. Ruha Benjamin is an internationally recognized writer, speaker, and professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she is the founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab.
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Apr 28, 2023 | 
christopherfarnsworth.substack.com | Jinwoo Chong |Christopher Farnsworth
While I am still slowly making my way through Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, I take breaks to read other books, especially since a single line from Pynchon can send me spinning off into orbit. This past week, I devoured several others:Red Team Blues by Cory DoctorowMade for Love by Alissa NuttingFluxby Jinwoo ChongFirst, Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow, a writer who both understands technology and thinks hard about what it means for society.
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Mar 28, 2023 | 
largeheartedboy.com | Jinwoo Chong
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Jinwoo Chong’s novel Flux is a propulsive literary mystery that defies genre, and one of the year’s most fascinating debuts.
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Mar 24, 2023 | 
powells.com | Jinwoo Chong
I had my first inklings of the novel that eventually became Flux about a year after I was laid off from my first job after college, the result of a corporate takeover of my company that eliminated my entire department. While a tough hurdle to overcome at twenty-one years old, I learned a lot about self-sufficiency, and, once I was ready, decided this episode of my life would make for a fantastic opening chapter. Which it eventually became.
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Mar 23, 2023 | 
sfbook.com | Jinwoo Chong |Sam Tyler
Time travel is one of the most complex and difficult concepts to write in fiction. On the screen you can use visuals as shorthand to try and explain what on Earth is going on, but in fiction you are required to explain it all, or not. There is a choice. Do you go down the route of hard science and try to explain the concepts or instead be more speculative and keep things a mystery. In Jinwoo Chong’s Flux we go down the what-just-happened route when we meet Bo, Brandon and Blue.
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Mar 22, 2023 | 
chron.com | Jinwoo Chong |Charles Arrowsmith
- - - In the Back to the Future movie trilogy, Marty McFly travels through time with the help of a Y-shaped gizmo called the flux capacitor. Its function receives only a cursory explanation, but it doesn't really matter how it works; the movie is less about the mechanics of time travel than the relationship between the past and the present, and the effect we can have on shaping our own destiny.
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Mar 22, 2023 | 
washingtonpost.com | Jinwoo Chong
In the Back to the Future movie trilogy, Marty McFly travels through time with the help of a Y-shaped gizmo called the flux capacitor. Its function receives only a cursory explanation, but it doesn't really matter how it works; the movie is less about the mechanics of time travel than the relationship between the past and the present, and the effect we can have on shaping our own destiny.
