Qian Julie Wang🔸王乾 🔸הֲדַסָּה
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ex-undocumented; ex-biglaw • managing partner, Gottlieb & Wang LLP • author, BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY • rep @hwaspeakers
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may you one day have no reason to fear the light…unless you’re a fox news guy
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my heart is broken. today i had one of those book events that authors of color warn each other early about, and that we hope no one else has to ever endure
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-the event was for a women’s association, and i was one of three authors to speak. the other authors were a white man and
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i know Blacks complain about being poor but you? you are lucky to even be here.”
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my speech was about how America made me feel small, erased. my book was about how America made me feel small, erased. and today, America prevailed yet again.
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so much admiration for my husband, who was raised zionist and led seder tonight (our baby’s first!) reminding everyone that the point of Passover is collective liberation.
he was repeatedly asked to stop. he kept going. people showed and voiced their discomfort. he kept going.
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a source of daily headache has proven to be an incredibly useful screening tool for screening candidates for hire.
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but three different ways (quinn, kwang, kian).
-then she said, “and she’s the daughter-in-law of [my mother-in-law’s name]!” as if my relation to a white woman justified my presence, and as if it had been a family favor for me & not a personal and enthusiastic invitation the
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sons were dating Asian women. towards the end of that line was a woman who said she had no interest in reading my book. in fact, she had waited in line just to ask me: “what do you illegals have to gripe about? why are you always complaining about america?
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i ugly sobbed the entire ride back. but when i got to the safety of my home, i saw all your beautiful messages, which had me smiling through my tears.
so grateful for you all 🥺 please know that the love from each of you has turned my spirit around ♥️
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organization made to my publisher.
-when i got up to speak, the servers jumped into action. several servers stood right in front of my podium, holding trays and clanking dishes and cups. this may well have been bad timing, but nothing like this occurred during the other authors’
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speeches. no one did anything to stop the disruption from mine. it persisted for the duration of my speech.
-during the signing, i talked to a line of people —some thoughtful, genuine and intelligent; many more who wanted me to know that their manicurist was Asian or that their
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a white woman.
-despite clear pronounciation guides on my website and from my publicists, no one leading the could say my name. i clearly stated for the MC the correct pronounciation three times. at one point she even wrote it down phonetically.
-when she introduced the other
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authors, she gave an original introduction, saying things like “we are so excited to have her here,” and “you might have read about his book in…”
-but when it was my turn, the MC just read the description of the book from the jacket and mispronounced my name not just in one way
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balm for my soul: attending the grand opening of Yu & Me books, the first bookstore-cafe-bar in Manhattan owned by an Asian American woman.
Located on 44 Mulberry Street, the store focuses on immigrant & diverse stories. i saw my book set in Chinatown sold in Chinatown 🥲
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my husband has been writing letters for our newborn daughter to read when she grows up 😭😭😭
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@jvplive
1. Why is this Passover different from other Passovers?
This time, the ethnic cleansing is being performed in our name. This time, Jews are in pursuit. This time, the same institutions that shrugged their shoulders and turned a blind eye to torch-lit chants of "Jews will not
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replace us" are meeting peaceful protests with violence and mass arrests. This time, it is not just first-born children who are at risk; miscarriages in Gaza have increased by 300%.
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people walked out. he still kept going.
as an excerpt, here are the four questions he prepared, with inspiration from
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’s haggadah:
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2. Tonight, why do we eat bitter herbs?
This Passover is not a time for self-congratulation. Our tradition teaches us that we come from the earth; teaches us to care for our environment and our bodies, which are created b'tzelem elokim, in God's image; the tradition of upsherin,
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after a year of polite corrections, i had to send this to an agency I employ. does using my proper name hurt anyone? why people are so resistant? why do people ignore my daily corrections while trolls feel compelled to send me death threats & slurs b/c of it? this is exhausting
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3.Tonight, why do we dip twice?
We dip to remember suffering. The presence of salt water on the table tonight should move us to consider the quality of water in Gaza, nearly all of which is salty. Israel has held the keys to Gaza's water supply since 1967 and has denied more
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debris from destroyed buildings; all pollute the air, water, and soil; pollute the earth; pollute our holy land. In the 60 days following October 7, the carbon emissions of Israel's military response was equivalent to burning roughly 150,000 metric tons of coal. Hamas' al-Qassam
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in which a young boy's hair is not cut until the age of 3, is attributed to Leviticus 19:23, which teaches that one should not eat fruit from a tree until a tree has grown for three years.
White phosphorus, lead, carcinogens, and other residue of bombs and bullets, tear gas, and
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October 7th. [Here, he also added unprepared remarks about today’s discovery of 300 bodies in mass graves, which has not received nearly the attention it deserves.]
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Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands:
“Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get
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than half of all applications for new water projects or for fixing old water wells. It has also maintained a policy of destroying all unauthorized wells. In 2017, the UN reported that 96% of the water in Gaza was "unfit for human consumption." The situation has not improved since
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i don’t usually explain rejections—there are many errors that disqualify someone from a position that requires attention to detail & there’s not enough time in the world—but this person followed up (& repeated the misspelling) so i thought they might be more amenable to feedback
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rockets contributed the equivalent of another 300 metric tons. Almost half of the total emissions were contributed by American planes ferrying military supplies to Israel.
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@emily_murnane
it’s the little things that g̶e̶t̶ y̶o̶u̶ p̶r̶o̶m̶o̶t̶e̶d̶ give you salmonella.
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welp, i didn't mean to use "screening" twice in one tweet but maybe that's why i've never been a paralegal 😅
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due to a recent fire, Yu & Me Books in Chinatown NY needs to remain closed for a year. if you’ve ever been to the store or one of their events, you know that the store is the heartbeat of Chinatown. please consider supporting their GoFundMe so they can stay afloat & rebuild:
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it���s official: our baby has 10 fingers & toes & all requisite organs and limbs.
after two consecutive losses, i’ve never cared so much about body parts
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last night, mere blocks from the sushi plant where my mom spent a winter working 12-hour shifts in ice water, my husband and I took my parents out for their first Michelin meal.
my mom said during the sea urchin course: “i used to process these. now i’m eating them. 我真有福.”
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95% of being a writer is feeling guilty about not writing more
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one of the hardest things about being an author is knowing how to allocate your free time and free labor. i had an experience recently that's making me rethink how i choose to support others. an author who was a complete stranger to me DMed me awhile back for a favor--to be her
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it’s about damn time.
tonight is dedicated to all the Asian moms, immigrant moms, single moms, working class moms who sacrificed and swallowed bitterness so their children could walk through new thresholds, break through artificial ceilings, and etch their names into history.
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@isabelkaplan
my husband markets my book everywhere we go. it’s borderline embarrassing. he’ll go to bookstores and stand next to my book and pull strangers to tell them they need to buy it 🫣 a few month after pub i discovered that he was writing my book title on our firm business cards to
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@vanjchan
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even our rats wouldn’t let a single wallet get left behind on the subway
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today i learned that my book is being taught in a Contemporary Literature class at Swarthmore & as someone who spent four years on campus feeling erased by the curricula I am just now realizing this is the dream I had for my book that I didn’t even dare acknowledge 🥺
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to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.”
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i looked at the NYT fiction bestsellers list for the first time in a long time and out of the 15 books, there’s not *a single* author of color?!
what happened to all those wholehearted pledges you made in 2020, editors and publishers?
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4 months postpartum & i argued & won an educational civil rights federal appeal for an indigent, immigrant-of-color child w/ severe autism. this is for all the fellow poor immigrant kids who continue to inspire me. it’s also for the boss who told my husband not to get me pregnant
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hand out to people. tangentially, i’ve also spent my whole legal career practicing with/against straight white guys & he’s been the best ally in calling it out when judges, opposing counsel, or clients treat me with less respect than they do him. good straight men do exist ❤️
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over the past years i have been asked repeatedly about common misconceptions of being a published/“established” author. and in my opinion, the biggest one is this: that publication and recognition are
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[TW: pregnancy loss]
today, i reunited with yoga my mat for the first time since my miscarriage in August. it had been the longest break i’ve taken from yoga since starting my practice over 17 years—quite literally half my life—ago. i spent most of the class shushing the
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my friend’s parents got a fake coyote to scare raccoons away from their yard. they didn’t realize how excited the raccoons would be to welcome a new party to their threesome 🦝🍆
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should i even be surprised that someone reported my tweet (about receiving hate) as purportedly promoting hate? 😒
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know which author is real and which authors are just peddling inauthenticity to make money? how do i know who to devote my support to? i'm still figuring all this out. but somehow, this kind of stuff hurts a little bit more when it comes from our in-group. ❤️🩹
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cw: pregnancy after losses 🌈
[i know what these announcements can do to people. i know because that have been times that these posts have sent me reeling—not because i was not happy for my friends, but because they reminded me of the healing i had yet to do. if this is
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the subway is the artery of the city. each attack drains the lifeblood of our home. sending love and prayers to Sunset Park and my fellow Brooklynites.
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headed to Paris for a month & my parents are joining us for part of that time. can you share some fave Parisian (and London) restaurants? my parents have never been to europe, don’t go on vacation unless i take them, & rarely eat out. we’d love to treat them to some nice meals 🙏
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still crying from my emails w/ my 3rd grade teacher yesterday 😭 here’s a snippet of her letter, along with the 27-year-old inscribed copy of Charlotte’s Web i recently uncovered.
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presenting the happy owners of an entire detached Victorian house in Brooklyn. it’s hard to believe that 28 years ago, 7-year-old me moved into a tenement-style apartment just a few blocks away, sharing one bathroom & kitchen w/ several immigrant families. i would move 21 times
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CW: pregnancy loss, miscarriage, D&C*** 4 months ago, we reached the realization that i've written off many times in my life: that we were ready to have a baby. 1/
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I questioned whether I was dreaming in 2016 when President Obama called me “fellow American” on video during my naturalization.
Now I’m questioning it again. My book criticizes his administration in its first pages. Thank you, Mr. President, for inspiring faith in our democracy
Over the next few days, I'll share my annual list of favorite books, music, and movies. Art always sustains and nourishes the soul. But for me, music and storytelling felt especially urgent during this pandemic year. I'll start by sharing some of my favorite books of 2021:
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just discovered that my husband has been handing out business cards with my book title handwritten on them. torn between mortified & moved
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working on a piece for NYT & i would love to hear about your experiences: what do you think of when you think of the NYC subway? what are some of your worst & best subway memories?
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@minjinlee11
hear, hear. im alive today in large part because of the free lunches at Chinatown’s P.S. 124. ditto on the tots!
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there are far bigger problems plaguing asian women & i try to brush it off, but i’ve spent cumulative years on the phone, writing letters, and filling out correction forms because people cannot bother to spell my name right on legal & tax paperwork—even for my naturalization
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my chinese dissident lineage teaches that it is no accident the discourse in mass american media is now about the campus protests rather than the very cause of those protests:
the over 33,000 Palestinians murdered (count as of late Feb; surely much higher now), with over 70%
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people are often shocked to hear that i wrote my entire book on my commute while making partner at a natl law firm & enduring chronic workplace harassment—& it should be said, within weeks of my DIY wedding. they ask how i did it. the truth? i couldn’t have done it otherwise. 1/3
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public humiliation is the cost of a proud partner: my husband tells everyone he meets about my book. he shows ppl a photo of the cover so they’ll remember it. at bookstores he stands by it just to recommend it. for awhile he handed out these business cards w/ my title on them 🫣.
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Sunset Park is mostly working class & houses Brooklyn's Chinatown. most residents are Chinese, Latinx, & Indian & rely on the subway. 29% live below the poverty line. even just one hour of subway closure can be costly. most of all, they, like all new yorkers, deserve to feel safe
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we got some annoying news today. a few hours later, my husband sent me these spontaneous texts. they would have had me tear up even pre-pregnancy, but at 7 months pregnant, they have me straight-up bawling in an Uber.
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my heart is full. BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY has won the 2022 Best Book Award from the Chinese American Librarians Association. is there another group of people closer to my heart? without these librarians, I never would have learned to read or write or DREAM in English.
thank you to …
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@anthonyocampo
yup. they also pay their staff less because apparently they can pay rent with prestige.
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as it turns out, many of my followers on Instagram were born after 2000 and have no idea what AIM was 👵🏼💀
turning to my Twitter folx in my old age:
please tell me you know what AIM is—and if you do, please share your first screen name. (mine were tigrrhart & midniteskies 🤓)
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never tell your immigrant mom your pregnancy cravings because she will take them very, very seriously
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i was on a walk yesterday, feeling stressed & useless, when a reader stopped me. she teared up & said how much my book meant to her.
these moments always seem to happen when i’m at my lowest. thank you to readers who receive writers’ words with open hearts. you keep us writing.
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34 & still can’t turn on the garbage disposal without imagining my hand getting sucked in and butchered into a stump. when do i become a real adult?
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muting replies now because the trolls have already shown their faces but love and respect to all names and cultures ♥️🙏
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more on querying & networking: i was dumbfounded when i finished writing my manuscript, because i knew all of 1.5 people in publishing at the time. the whole time i wrote, i told myself it didn’t matter that i didn’t know how to break into publishing because i was never going to
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thoughtful ways. but in the course of our communications the author dropped words like "elder brain" to say that her older family members would forget vax papers, and refused the most minimal precautions to protect communities with disabilities and medical conditions. how do we
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the saddest parts of this is that i read her book instead of another book i was hoping to blurb but no longer have time to read. i was also very excited about this YA book. it seemed very forward thinking and justice oriented. it used words like "ageism" and "ableism" in
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when you pay for a 5-day vacation for your immigrant parents over their vociferous protest & they bring all the contents of their kitchen, pots and pans included, to “save your money” 🫠
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🚨FREE pepper spray pickup Sun. 4/4, 12-4 pm for NYC Asians in Wash Sq Park 🚨 pick one up for your elders. via imkenjijones on IG ⭐️ donate to @/kenjijones on Venmo to support.
NB: It is legal to carry pepper spray in NYC but not legal to order it online & have it shipped here
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happy mother’s day to all the mothers who confronted generational trauma; who swallowed bitterness while taking all the risks; who refused to make themselves small; and who lived boldly so their children would refuse to accept anything less.
thank you for changing our world.
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nbd just a photo of my judge recommending my book to the Federal Bar Association and saying that she’s about to read it for the fourth time 😭
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my husband, on our flight to Maui: “we should tell people we’re on our honeymoon to get free perks.”
me: “no way anyone will buy that. i look too weary from years of being your wife.”
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ask her to remove me from all event advertising so readers are not led to believe i am associated with the event. she failed to do so--i am continuing to reach out to orgs on my own to have them remove marketing--but she did block me on all platforms.
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gatekeeping in publishing is so insidious it trickles down to even (perhaps most of all?) the newest, most insecure authors & it makes me so sad. people are burning their careers & reputations before they even publish. not long ago, i was intro’d to a debut author (former lawyer)
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dreams come true 😭 today i got a personally curated BSC set and handwritten note from Ann M. Martin herself. The Baby-sitters Club formed my whole childhood. thank you to
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for bringing into fruition something beyond little Qian Qian’s wildest imaginings
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the audacity of people who write me &:
-get my name wrong
-demand i do many things for free & travel on my own dime
-say that my voice is important but only for the month of May
reclaiming my Chinese name has been the best thing i've done bc i can spot the ignorant instantly
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what’s the best response to someone who asks you to speak for free and to give them free books, and spells your name wrong every single time they follow up with you? i’m at my wit’s end with this audacity.
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my parents are both Water Tigers- they turn 60 this year, and this is the first Water Tiger year since they were born in 1962. chinese superstition says that 本命年 can be bad luck, but this Fire Rabbit sees only brightness ahead in 2022 for her pair of intrepid Tigers ♥️
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i was covid free for 26 months. it was a good streak. not sure if this is where i finally caught it, but i was the only person wearing a (KN95) mask on the entire 737 during a 7-hour flight last week
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whenever i feel defeated about the progress yet to be achieved, my readers swoop in and pick me up off the ground
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one year. we remember you.
Hyun Jung Grant
Soon Chung Park
Suncha Kim
Yong Ae Yue
Xiaojie Tan
Daoyou Feng
Delaina Ashley Yaun
Paul Andre Michels
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the more i hire for my own firm, the clearer it is that biglaw firms are selling empty prestige. a HYS degree does not guarantee an understanding of clients' needs nor the grit & passion needed for the long haul. but it does guarantee that firms can bill you out at $1,000/hr.
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preparing for it. i also express my concern about the ethics with how this event is being run, given my work in disability law. the author responds, copying her editor and publicist, claiming that there was a misunderstanding and that COVID protocols are "new territory." she does
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my dad arrived in the US 30 years ago today. he knew no one & had just a couple of hundred dollars. when asked if, looking back, he would do anything differently, he said no— he has the same hope & love for America today as he did decades ago. he’s the biggest patriot i know.
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this afternoon, i am speaking to the teachers of my former elementary school, P.S. 124. i had previously asked if my favorite teacher was still on staff.
i just got this email from the principal 🥺🥺🥺
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the fewer publishing connections you have, the more the industry needs your voice, which is more likely to be underrepresented, and the more the world needs your book.
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in the depths of my dark period over the last weeks, this msg popped up. it’s from an older white male executive in Sydney (not exactly my core audience, tho i’ve been shocked at the #!) it kept me working on my 2nd book amidst it all. angels are around us & they take all forms❤️🩹
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publicly reveal yet. she stands firm, even though i try to negotiate and say she can go without masking since it is her event. i later write an email to her and her publicist saying i feel that i have no choice but to back out of the event despite having spent a lot of time
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the point of writing—that they are the biggest reward. the truth is that in writing with no guarantees, you are already enjoying most of the magic and reward (without, i should add, the stress of publicity, marketing, reception).
my first book was, in many ways, a fluke.
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envious of the window seat superhumans who never have to use the plane bathroom once. half the reason i’m an aisle person is that i need to get up every hour. just got off a 5 hour flight next to a man downing IPAs who didn’t even seem like he was holding it. what?!
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particular medical considerations right now. the author calls me and essentially tries to pressure me to waive all precautions (neither vax nor masks) or back out of the event. I even share with her my current medical situation, which is very personal and which I'm not ready to
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