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Jan 8, 2025 | audiofilemagazine.com | Weike Wang

Jen Zhao delivers an insightful performance of this novel, which is structured around several family vacations. College sweethearts Keru and Nate have never fit in with their families and have made their own family with their sheepdog, Mantou. Cultural differences between Keru's cautious immigrant parents and Nate's boisterous American parents have created an additional fissure, so the families have taken up vacationing separately.

Dec 11, 2024 | adastrastories.substack.com | Angela Davis |Derecka Purnell |Siddharth Kara |Weike Wang

[Dear readers: This issue contains discussions of white supremacy, police brutality, racism, ableism, and sexism.] “Hope isn’t an emotion…hope [is] a discipline…In the world we live in, it’s easy to feel a sense of hopelessness, that everything is all bad all the time, that nothing is going to change ever, that people are evil and bad at the bottom…I choose to think a different way, and I choose to act in a different way.” Throughout We Do This ‘Til We Free Us, Mariame Kaba uses the lens of...

Dec 9, 2024 | newyorker.com | Weike Wang

Comfort Near WaterLacey Township, N.J.Recently refurbished houseboat. Sleeps four guests comfortably, and many more less comfortably, but it’s definitely doable and safe, though no jumping all at once, please. Adorable kitchenette with mini-fridge, electric kettle, and retro classic compact microwave. Spacious patio seating, no chairs.

Dec 6, 2024 | therumpus.net | Weike Wang

I have been a teacher of writing (and science) for many years now. I am a writer today in large part thanks to generous writing teachers I’ve had along the way. I did not start writing fiction until college and by then I already felt behind. Craft wise, I had to learn it all from scratch. I had to become a whole different reader, on the sentence level. Textbooks and practice were how I learned science. These were the same tools I used to learn how to write.

Dec 6, 2024 | penguinrandomhouselibrary.com | Rachel Tran |Weike Wang

By Rachel Tran | December 6 2024 | NewsFridayReads Have you read this yet? Reading this right now?