cover of episode Rerun: #533 Hua Hsu (May 2023)

Rerun: #533 Hua Hsu (May 2023)

2024/1/3
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Hua Hsu is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His book Stay True) won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for memoir.

“I've worked as a journalist … for quite a while. … But this [book] was the thing that was always in the back of my mind. Like, this was the thing that a lot of that was in service of. Just becoming better at describing a song or describing the look of someone's face—these were all things that I implicitly understood as skills I needed to acquire. ... It is sort of an origin story for why I got so obsessive about writing.”

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