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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. the standout essay here is the one on the asian shooter. the rest range from good to meandering. yang is an interesting writer and figure, even though he seems kind of lazy at times. saw a review of this saying it was too male-oriented, which is probably true. guess "the souls of yellow men" wasn't as captivating Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I was disappointed by the content based on the title; I was hoping for a curation of essays speaking to the Asian and Asian American experience, but by and large was mostly a collection of personal interviews and puff pieces from the last decade. There were several interesting stories, but I feel misled by my expectations of the book. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Excellent narration. Essays range form poor to very good. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
One of the most acclaimed essayists of his generation, Wesley Yang writes about race and sex without the jargon, formulas, and polite lies that bore us all. His powerful debut, The Souls of Yellow Folk, does more than collect a decade's worth of cult-reputation essays-it corrals new American herds of pickup artists, school shooters, mandarin zombies, and immigrant strivers, and exposes them to scrutiny, empathy, and polemical force. In his celebrated and prescient essay "The Face of Seung-Hui Cho," Yang explores the deranged logic of the Virginia Tech shooter. In his National Magazine Award-winning "Paper Tigers," he explores the intersection of Asian values and the American dream, and the inner torment of the child exposed to "tiger mother" parenting. And in his close reading of New York Magazine's popular Sex Diaries, he was among the first critics to take seriously today's Internet-mediated dating lives. Yang catches these ugly trends early because he has felt at various times implicated in them, and he does not exempt himself from his radical honesty. His essays retain the thrill of discovery, the wary eye of the first explorer, and the rueful admission of the first exposed. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I think my favorites were... well half the book. "Paper Tigers" and "Eddie Huang Against the World" (which gave me the germ of a thought, still undeveloped, about a certain kind of usually-male distrust-the-universe and fuck-the-unbelievers strain that must have run through Vice Media and points to something common in e.g. Eddit Huang and e.g. Gavin McInnes.), "On Francis Fukuyama" especially. His last section where he begins wrestling with the current progressive orthodoxy, liberalism, etc. are interesting, but not as cohesive... or, maybe, strong? I feel like there is a really compelling essay waiting to be written here but he hasn't yet figured out how to do it. ( )