What Could Have Been: A Conversation with Nicole Chung.
I will provide links to some classic essays by Joan Didion, Colson Whitehead, Cheryl Strayed, and Nicole Chung, along with some analysis of them. Class Projects 6 See All In this workshop, you’ll learn how to take a story about something you experienced and develop it into an essay that readers can identify with, whether or not their life experience has been anything like yours.
Nicole Chung recently became web editor-in-chief at Catapult, the latest in a slew of accomplishments that mark her greatness as a writer and editor. In 2017 alone, Chung published an essay about being an Asian adoptee in a white family in the anthology Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America; wrote an incredible profile of John Cho for GQ; and interviewed Amy.
All You Can Ever Know is an adoption memoir documenting Nicole Chung’s journey in understanding her roots. It begins with a younger Chung asking her mother difficult questions about her own adoption, to which she receives simple and conservative responses.
A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home edited by Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary (in Shelf Awareness) The title originates in poet Jamila Osman’s essay, “A Map of Lost Things”: “A map is only one story,” writes the Canadian-born daughter of Somali immigrants who now lives in Portland, Ore.
For example, Nicole Chung in the article, “What Goes Through Your Mind: On Nice Parties and Casual Racism” explores the racial treatment of Asians by non-Asians. Similarly, Larry Lehna talks about the distinct differences between whites and blacks in law enforcement. Kundnani also addresses the discrimination of Sikhs on account of their cultural and religious beliefs. Drawing from these.
Fat Girl Cries Herself to Sleep At Night: An Illustrated Essay by Natalie Lima (Longreads) A Woman, Tree or Not by Terese Marie Mailhot (Longreads) Father of Disorder by Jessica Willbanks (Republished on Longreads) How to Write a Memoir While Grieving by Nicole Chung (Longreads).
Wed., May 15, 2019: Nicole Chung finds new territory in adoption stories told through her own eyes as the adoptee Sat., May 11, 2019: Nicole Chung’s enlightening story on adoption takes center.