A petty urbanite // MASQUERADE (@Tin_House) 🥀🌕 // Translator of STORIES OF THE SAHARA by Sanmao (@BloomsburyBooks) 🐫🏜️
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"Desire in itself is empty, in other words it merely indicates direction, but never destination; destinations, in any case, always remain phantasmagoric and unclear; the closer we get to them, the more enigmatic they become."
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Happy to have an article on isekai anime published with the Japan Times. Many thanks to editor Mike Fu @wheatfu for all his guidance!
japantimes.co.jp/culture/202…
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🚨big announcement!!! you can preorder my novel now! this is the beautiful cover! out from @Tin_House July 1, 2025 😊 please order from non-Amazon links 😊 tinhouse.com/book/wanting/
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Editor-in-Chief Jiaqi Kang @jiaqikangjiaqi chats with Mike Fu @wheatfu about the cultural history behind his debut novel, his academic background, and his current interests and inspirations.
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"Where Masquerade excels is the way it evokes a lived-in version of New York—Brooklyn in particular—even as it takes its protagonist to increasingly surreal places, literally & metaphorically."
@TobiasCarroll reviews🌔🥀Masquerade by @wheatfu @reactormag!
reactormag.com/book-review-m…
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Come hang with @wheatfu at @yuandmebooks tomorrow at 6pm! Mike is gracing us with his presence all the way from Tokyo, don't miss it!
yuandmebooks.com/blogs/news/…
Pleased to share my write-up of TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE, a book to awaken all kinds of hunger 🌴🚂🥢👘🌸 @linkinglionking @undertonecat @GraywolfPress @nationalbook
Kaleidoscopic histories unfold in Yang Shuang-zi’s layered tale of female companionship in a colonial era. jtim.es/40Io3cQ
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＼第37回 #東京国際映画祭／
コンペティション部門 最優秀芸術貢献賞は…
˗ˋˏ🎊『わが友アンドレ』🎊ˎˊ˗
おめでとうございます！！
#ドン・ズージェン 監督
🎬『#わが友アンドレ』作品詳細はこちらから
2024.tiff-jp.net/ja/lineup/f…
📺第37回 #東京国際映画祭 クロージングセレモニー 公式YouTubeチャンネルで配信中！
youtube.com/live/Mm6HLtQYMXo…
#TIFFJP
A feline diversion: I wrote about the consolation of cats and the boom in iyashikei/healing literature in translation from East Asia 🛌🐈🐈⬛😸😽✨
Pictured: “Kurokineko” (1910) by Hishida Shunso
Cats are all the craze in Japan’s “healing fiction," even for overseas readers. jtim.es/4f7Gz2M
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“Shanghai in June is a sweltering continuum of neon and glass, its colors and textures either smudged by gloom or rendered aggressively crisp under the harsh sun.” Read from @wheatfu’s new novel, Masquerade.
lithub.com/masquerade
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"Every song is a portal into the past, a chance to connect with countless mundane moments from before..."
@wheatfu shared a playlist for his debut novel Masquerade at @largeheartedboy largeheartedboy.com/2024/10/… @Tin_House
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We have @wheatfu on the podcast chatting about his debut novel MASQUERADE!
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4eZ… @Tin_House
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“I’m pretty omnivorous when it comes to my reading habits.” @wheatfu’s TBR, featuring Ray Bradbury, Elysha Chang, Tony Tulathimutte, and more.
lithub.com/the-annotated-nig…
My debut novel MASQUERADE is out from @Tin_House today. It’s about the wretched, beautiful place that is New York and the implacable ghosts of history and memory.
And of course, I am indebted to the whole Tin House crew that has buoyed me and steered me through these pre-pub rapids 🌊🛶💦 and all the early readers and reviewers for their time and care 🙇🏻♂️🙇🏻♂️🙇🏻♂️
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🌹🌖Happy Pub Day!🌖🌹
Masquerade by Mike Fu (@wheatfu) is out now!
A Best Book of Fall at TIME & Best Book of October at People, The Associated Press, Chicago Review of Books & The Millions!
🌹🌖Hit the link to read more and order now!
bit.ly/MasqueradeNovel
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Readers, reviewers, interviewers, it's getting real! 😁 @Tin_House is holding a special galley giveaway for THE EDGE OF WATER, out 2.4.25! We'd love to hear from you.
✨ Want to be one of the first to read the luminous debut novel The Edge of Water by @ogracebankole?
Jami Attenberg calls The Edge of Water “an artfully constructed, beautifully told, and utterly moving book.”
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