"I read your book." | Sung J. Woo

In five days, the paperback edition of Everything Asian will be hitting the shelves.  Pick one up!  Tell your friends!  And if your friend is Oprah, be sure to give her a copy!

Anyway, back to reality.  Tomorrow I’ll be visiting the West Windsor Library in Princeton Junction for an event titled “Studio Scrawl: The Art of the Short-Short Story.”  I did this presentation at Pingry for their students a little while back and it went over well, so I’ll once again be singing the praises of J. Robert Lennon and his awesome short-short stories.  If you still haven’t read Pieces for the Left Hand, man, am I jealous.  I wish I could read it for the first time all over again.

Next Friday at 9pm (7/23), I’ll be at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s Mouth to Mouth Open Mic featuring Ali Wong and yours truly.  It’s my paperback launch, so come on out for some good literature and comedy.

All hail the e-book!  The talented J. Robert Lennon has decided to put  a collection of his material into electronic format.  From his website:

Video Game Hints, Tricks, And Cheats is a collection of random, mostly comic writing from the past dozen years, including pieces published in Harper’s, Granta, The Los Angeles Times, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. Most of the pieces here are available on the “Read Online” section of this website, but quite a few have never been seen before.

Since I don’t have an iPad, I downloaded the old-school PDF version.  There’s quite a few gems in here, too many to name, so it’s pretty much guaranteed that you’ll laugh your head off more than a few times.  Lennon hopes that other writers will follow suit.  I’d love to, except I’ve yet to amass enough material!  Which means instead of writing this post, I really should be writing.  OK, gotta go.