Horror Has Become Normal: An Interview with Gish Jen

BORN IN 1955, raised by Chinese immigrant parents in the predominantly Jewish suburb of Scarsdale, New York, Gish Jen started writing poetry in seventh grade. By high school, she’d become literary editor of her school magazine — and after fellow members of the creative writing club nicknamed her after the groundbreaking silent-screen actress Lillian Gish, […] The post Horror Has Become Normal: An Interview with Gish Jen appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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