Muriel Leung

Dec 5, 2024 | lithub.com | Muriel Leung

Despite writing a novel about ghosts, I do not profess to be a ghost expert. But I do know that every April, my family gathers at multiple cemeteries across New York and New Jersey to pay their respects to our grandparents, parents, uncles, and aunties that have passed. We burn gold-flecked paper and “hell notes” (afterlife currency) to line the pockets of our dearly departed. We talk to the gravestones while pouring tea and rice wine along the grass, and our ancestors drink from the earth.

Oct 23, 2024 | largeheartedboy.com | Muriel Leung

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. Muriel Leung’sHow to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster might be my favorite debut novel of the year, climate fiction filled with dystopia and longing.

Sep 17, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Muriel Leung

You’d think I’d recognize the comedy in it. I was quietly nervous that Tony Tulathimutte wasn’t going to like me. What if he didn’t like my questions? What if he thought they were unintelligent? Or too obvious? It was a subtle unease, quiet enough that I almost didn’t realize I was concerned about being, well, rejected by him. It’s a funny thing to worry about just after reading Tulathimutte’s latest novel, aptly titled, Rejection(William Morrow, 2024).

Oct 25, 2023 | bombmagazine.org | Maya Jackson |Jjjjjerome Ellis |Muriel Leung |Giancarlo Montes Santangelo

Excavating public and private photographicarchives from Argentina and Puerto Rico,Giancarlo Montes Santangelo creates images that unravel the relationship betweenphotographs produced during the twentiethcentury, the subjects of those images, and theenduring effects of this capture. With these archival images, MontesSantangelo makes collages, prints them large,and stages himself and others within thecollages.

Sep 1, 2023 | bombmagazine.org | Maya Jackson |Jjjjjerome Ellis |Muriel Leung |David Everitt Howe

Translated by Sarah Booker(Coffee House, 2023)The internet never forgets. Lurkingbeneath that popular saying is a sharedanxiety about the murky corners andless-than-savory contents of the onlinerealm and what our digital activitiesmight reveal about our offline selves. Disclosures we make on the internetfunction as a kind of collective id forhumanity, so what do they say aboutus? For the Ecuadorean writer MónicaOjeda, nothing good.