Charles Yu
4,608 posts
Charles Yu
@charles_yu
Dad, husband, author of four books including National Book Award winning and NYT bestselling novel INTERIOR CHINATOWN.
Joined March 2010
- This is actually happening. I know it in my brain. Other people seem to also confirm. And yet I still cannot believe this is actually happening.Jimmy O. Yang and @TaikaWaititi are teaming up for @hulu’s adaptation of Charlie Yu’s novel ‘Interior Chinatown.’ tvinsider.com/1065407/interi…
- was just signing an email "best" and typed "beset" instead and that feels about right
- I, um, WHAT?!?!?!A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to @charles_yu for making the 2020 #NBAWARDS Longlist for Fiction! AHHHH!!!!!! YAY!!!!!! OMG!!! 🥂❤️
- I miss avoiding eye contact with strangers at a coffee shop while I pretend to write.
- On my way to the National Book Awards! Hope to see you there! @PantheonBooks @VintageAnchor @nationalbook #nationalbookawards
- Amazed and honored to be among the Finalists. I'm so grateful to @nationalbook, the fiction judges, to @PantheonBooks @VintageAnchor, and everyone who read my book, wrote about it, or encouraged me here or offline. Looking forward to lots of reading! @likaluca @penguinrandom.
- possible sign of burnout: just stared at the word "restaurant" for a solid minute to make sure I had spelled it right. I had not.
- Let’s say it all together: “You’re fired.”
- Florida man stares out the window contemplates retirement, burger
- HARSH WRITING ADVICE The thing needs two more revisions. And then one more. And then maybe cut out 30% of it. The bad 30%. Problem is, that 30% is stuck like chewed gum to the other 70%.
- Excited to share that my novel Interior Chinatown has made the shortlist (le deuxieme selection) for Le Prix Medicis Etranger in France. I’m honored and thrilled. Thank you to the jurors and my publisher @forgesdevulcain @DavidMeulemans and translator Aurelia Thiria Meulemans!
- Our new director-approved 4K special edition of Wong Kar Wai’s swooning masterpiece IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000) has arrived!❣️ On our release: a doc by Wong chronicling the making of the film; interviews; deleted scenes; an essay by @charles_yu; cover by @iamalwayshungry; & more!
