Charles yu md11/19/2023 ![]() ![]() “Brilliantly unexpected and inventive, Interior Chinatown upended all the things I was sure I knew about the insidious power of stereotypes and left me feeling a little more hopeful for our collective future. John Mandel, National Book Award finalist and author of The Glass Hotel This is an extraordinary book by an immensely talented writer.” - Emily St. ![]() “ Interior Chinatown is wrenching, hilarious, sharp, surreal, and above all, original. Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Sympathizer These talents are front and center in the brilliant and hilarious Interior Chinatown, which satirizes the racist imagination and brings us deep into the humanity of those who suffer from-and struggle against-dehumanization.” “I’m a big fan of Charles Yu’s writing because of his wit and inventiveness. “ sharply observed, darkly humorous evocation of the Asian American experience that blurs the line between performative acts and literal small-screen performances.” The details meticulously crafted, render a universe that feels complete to the touch.” It’s all of those things, but maybe mostly, it’s allegory. a kind of a George Saundersesque alternate reality. Anita Felicelli, San Francisco Chronicle “Interior Chinatown solders together mordant wit and melancholic whimsy to produce a moving exploration of race and assimilation that shouldn’t be missed by intellectually adventurous readers.” “ncisively examines the Asian-American reality of “being perpetual foreigners” in the United States, a minority whose story “will never fit into Black and White.” “Interior Chinatown … recalls the humorous and heartfelt short stories of George Saunders, the metafictional high jinks of Mark Leyner and films like ‘The Truman Show.’” “One of the funniest books of the year has arrived, a delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire.” Club, Lit Hub, Woman’s Day, The Rumpus, Thrillist, and more. Named a Most Anticipated Book by: Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine, The A.V. Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes– Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet. ![]() Or is it?Īfter stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he’s ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family, and what that means for him, in today’s America. but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy–the highest aspiration he can imagine for a Chinatown denizen. Every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. My research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.PBS NEWSHOUR / NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICKįrom the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. The ultimate goal is to determine whether induction of sustainable changes in the gut microbiome can be developed into a therapeutic intervention for obesity and the metabolic syndrome. I am exploring the use oral capsulized FMT as a novel technique to durably alter the gut microbiome and investigate changes in metabolic endpoints including body weight and insulin sensitivity. Studies suggest that fecal microbiota transfer (FMT) from lean donors may induce weight loss and improve insulin sensitivity in recipients. Gut microbiota have been recently identified to play an important role in many aspects of human physiology, including regulating obesity and metabolism. Within the obesity field, my research is focused on the impact of gut microbiota modulation on human metabolism. Key bone techniques that I am utilizing include high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT) for the in vivo assessment of bone microarchitecture, microindentation for the estimation of cortical bone material strength properties, and 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy for the measurement of marrow adiposity characteristics. I have also examined the skeletal impact of proton pump inhibitors, diabetes, and sex steroids, and explored physiologic effects of parathyroid hormone (PTH) in the treatment of osteoporosis. Within the bone field, my ongoing research projects include (1) studying skeletal health after bariatric (weight loss) surgery in obese patients, (2) determining the physiologic mechanisms involved in bone loss after bariatric surgery, and (3) using these insights to guide management of bone health in bariatric surgery patients. My research focuses on the dual fields of bone disease and obesity metabolism.
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