Gish Jen: the self in the world / Biling Chen. Writing about the things that are dangerous: a conversation with Gish Jen / Martha Satz -- Interview with Gish Jen / Yuko Matsukawa -- Gish Jen: interview / Rachel Lee -- Gish Jen: so, aren't you going to ask if I'm Jewish? / Ron Hogan -- Gish Jen: an interview on the American experience / Lilli Leggio -- An interview with Gish Jen / Sarah Anne Johnson -- Interview with Gish Jen / Bill Moyers -- A conversation with Gish Jen about the love wife / Bookbrowse -- Gish Jen talks about how she became a writer / Rob Neufeld -- A conversation with Gish Jen / Suzanne Koven -- Interview with Gish Jen: tiger writer whose novels reflect the ways in which we view ourselves and our culture -- Jennifer Haupt -- Interview with Gish Jen / Paul Peppis -- An interview with Gish Jen / Katie Young Foste -- "Give me my daily wickedness": celebrated novelist Gish Jen talks with chapter 16 about truth-telling and the project of fiction / Sarah Norris- -- An interview with Gish Jen / Ryan Kim -- Gish Jen: the self in the world / Jason Gots -- A conversation with Gish Jen / Biling Chen.
Summary:
"'Conversations with Gish Jen' is the first collection of interviews with the renowned contemporary American author Gish Jen (b. 1955), whose acclaimed fiction and nonfiction have fascinated American readers for more than thirty years. The conversations in this book offer first-hand information not only about Jen's authorial intentions, but also about her life as a daughter of Chinese immigrants. Spanning more than two decades, beginning in 1991 and ending with a new, unpublished interview from 2017, these interviews provide readers a sense of Jen's development as a novelist and cultural critic, "--Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.