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          April 26, 2024
          BIPOC Reading Series April
          May 1, 2024
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Charles Yu

Charles Yu is the author of four books of fiction, including the novels Interior Chinatown, winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction, and How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, a New York Times notable book and a Time magazine best book of the year. He received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award and was nominated for two Writers Guild of America awards for his work on the HBO series Westworld. He has also written for shows on FX, AMC, and HBO. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired, among other publications. Together with TaiwaneseAmerican.org, he established the Betty L. Yu and Jin C. Yu Writing Prizes, in honor of his parents.

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