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• Good books I’ve read in the past year (2024-25):
  • Homeseeking by Karissa Chen (so good! can’t recommend this one enough)
  • We Two Alone: Stories by Jack Wang
  • Stay True by Hua Hsu (thanks Matt for the rec)
  • Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
  • Other Rivers by Peter Hessler
• My favorite podcasts:
  • Sinica by Kaiser Kuo
  • 不明白播客
  • What Now? with Trevor Noah
  • The Ezra Klein Show
  • 故事FM
  • NüVoices

All commentators seem to agree that neither Korean people nor Chinese people literally believe that America is a beautiful country. But both Korean people and Chinese people must call America beautiful in order to speak its name.

— Monica Youn (Details of the Rice Chest)