@EmilyMatchar

Journalist, author of novel In the Shadow of the Greenbrier (2024) and non-fiction Homeward Bound. https://xitter.cf/t.co/mzuyQVbkcL or @emilymatcharwriter on Insta

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Joined February 2009
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Cover reveal! Available for preorder, out March 2024 penguinrandomhouse.com/books…

In the Shadow of the Greenbrier by Emily Matchar: 9780593713969 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Four generations. One remarkable hotel. Countless secrets. Nestled in the hills of West Virginia lies White Sulphur Springs, home to the Greenbrier Resort. Long a playground for presidents and...

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You will LOVE @EmilyMatchar’s In the Shadow of the Greenbrier! It’s truly a saga of what it means to be a foreigner in any land at any time — even in your own family. I’m so honored I got to bring it to life in the audiobook! Thank you @MollyyLoRe @livmacsmith @PRHAudio 🐧
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Leslie Jamison@lsjamison23 Feb 2024
Thank you @EmilyMatchar for picking up the conversation like we never left it, as we’ve done for two decades ✨
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Spring Break southern-midwestern tour!
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Riveting preschool pickup line reading from @lsjamison
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Emily's nonfiction book HOMEWARD BOUND was the first book I ever sold as an agent. More than a decade letter, she sent me her novel!
Emily Matchar@EmilyMatchar5 Jan 2023
The novel that’s been bouncing around my brain for years will be published in 2024!
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The novel that’s been bouncing around my brain for years will be published in 2024!
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Perhaps my favorite review yet. @AP, you had me at your title, "Humanity crystallized in ‘Letter to a Stranger’". Shout-outs to the work of @thejeremybjones @TrickyLaRouge and @EmilyMatchar embedded in the review--so well-deserved! 🥂
Off Assignment@OffAssignment22 Mar 2022
We got picked up by the wire! Overjoyed by this lovely review in the @AssociatedPress and grateful that the book is now known by millions more readers! bit.ly/3qkZAHB
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Psyched to have an essay in LETTER TO A STRANGER, edited by @colleenkinder of @OffAssignment, out today from @AlgonquinBooks!
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That’s about the shape of it
Timothy McLaughlin@TMclaughlin317 Mar 2022
“The result has been an embarrassingly shambolic effort that has created a preventable public-health disaster, yet another glaring failure of governance from an administration whose defining characteristic is catastrophic ineptitude.” theatlantic.com/internationa…

What Happened to Hong Kong?

The city was once lauded for controlling the coronavirus’s spread. But this month, it recorded one of the highest death rates in the world.

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Iain Marlow@iainmarlow2 Mar 2022
One of the fundamentally broken things about Hong Kong's current Covid situation is that it has neither the scale/labor force/compliance of the mainland to do a draconian lockdown, nor the democratic accountability to ensure balanced, reasonable public health measures.
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Joel Chan@kjoules27 Feb 2022
7-day average daily Covid deaths per 1 million population, latest figures: Hong Kong 🇭🇰 8.15 United States 🇺🇸 5.23 Japan 🇯🇵 1.87 UK 🇬🇧 1.80 Canada 🇨🇦 1.79 Australia 🇦🇺 1.36 Singapore 🇸🇬 1.36
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Removed in the middle of the night… bbc.com/news/world-asia-chin…
"Every year, students from the University of Hong Kong have cleaned the pillar, paying special attention to the words engraved at the bottom: 'The old cannot kill the young forever.'"nytimes.com/2021/11/24/opini…

Opinion | Hong Kong’s Universities Have Fallen. There May Be No Turning Back. (Published 2021)

Shrinking the public space that preserves the memory of the 1989 Beijing uprising has effectively turned Hong Kong into another silent mainland city.

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In lockdown for 18 months, Singapore’s migrant workers yearn for freedom. nytimes.com/2021/09/29/world…

In lockdown for 18 months, Singapore’s migrant workers yearn for freedom. (Published 2021)

Over 90 percent of the workers who live in dormitories in the country are now fully vaccinated. They are still under tight restrictions.

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Complete humans rights abuse
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@tripperhead30 Sep 2021
An awful and rather terrifying account on the perils of falling ill whilst under a quarantine order in Hong Kong. (Source: Facebook HK Quarantine Support Group)
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My op ed in today’s SCMP: despite zero covid in Hong Kong, children have not been allowed to resume normal school day - and EDB seems to have no plan scmp.com/comment/opinion/art…

Opinion | It’s past time for Hong Kong to bring back normal school days

The EDB’s 70 per cent vaccination rule for school reopening seems neither scientific nor is it being equally applied. Most students have not had a full day of school since 2020, but private schools...

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“We will now clearly state that this sort of intimidation will stop at us. We will not transmit that fear through our compliance.” - HK's Tiananmen vigil organizer, going down fighting nytimes.com/2021/09/08/world…

Hong Kong Police Arrest Organizers of Tiananmen Square Vigil (Published 2021)

The group, which holds annual events to remember those killed during the 1989 crackdown, had refused to hand over funding details.

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The pioneers of Hong Kong's LGBT movement are largely in jail or targets of Beijing. LegCo is rife with bigotry, most notably in the form of Junius Ho. And next year, Hong Kong will become the first Asian city to host the Gay Games. by @theodorayuhk washingtonpost.com/world/asi…

Gay Games in Hong Kong face attacks as China’s proxies target LGBT groups

The controversy comes as mainland authorities clamp down on advocates of sexual minority rights.

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