Wen-yi Lee

Sep 27, 2024 | crimereads.com | Wen-yi Lee

Ghosts at their definition are an aftermath. They have always represented the unresolved, be it grief, guilt, unfulfillment, or injustice. They represent something that came before; as a result, ghosts are such powerful sites for conversations about loss: we all carry once-wases and could’ve beens. Article continues after advertisementBut a haunting specifically requires a subject; it is an interaction that makes a ghost tangible in the real world by the touches it leaves.

Aug 16, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Zen Cho |June Hur |Monika Kim |Wen-yi Lee

Reading Lists Female ghosts across Asia simultaneously embody marginalization, fearsome empowerment, and freedom from restrictive gender norms Though they’ve been icons of cinema for a while—see: Sadako, Shutter—it’s taken English literature a little longer to catch up to Asian women front and centre in stories of ghosts and horror. The prevalence of female ghosts across Asia has always interested me: how often their origin is rooted in concepts of failed femininity and spoiled maternity; how...

Mar 22, 2023 | nightmare-magazine.com | Wendy Wagner |Wen-yi Lee

Content warnings:Sexism and misogyny, teen sex, blood, death9:48amcan i see ur titsplease10:02am🙁• • • •The day after the picture of your boobs gets sent around the school, a mosquito lands on your tongue and bursts like a ripe cherry. You are crying in the disabled stall of the girls’ bathroom where you took the photo to begin with. You hate that you’re back here, but it’s where you were that day four months ago because it’s the only private mirror in the whole school. It’s exactly the same.

Mar 17, 2023 | player.captivate.fm | Juli Min |Tashie Bhuiyan |Wen-yi Lee |Sophie Wan

On this episode, we check out the latest book and publishing news in Asian American literature for our March 2023 mid-month check-in, including catching up with the Harper Collins publishing announcements we missed during the strike.

Mar 15, 2023 | tor.com | Wen-yi Lee

“This house eats and is eaten,” begins Trang Thanh Tran’s debut gothic horror novel She Is A Haunting. The book opens with Jade, a closeted Vietnamese American girl who reluctantly travels to Vietnam for the first time to spend the summer in the colonial house her estranged father is renovating as a B&B–only to find that the house has other ideas. [Minor spoilers for She Is A Haunting]Along with refurbishments, the house is given a new local name: Nhà Hoa, Flower House.