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Gish Jen
Here's the shortlist for the 2025 John Dos Passos prize.
By
Brittany Allen
| October 23, 2025
Claire-Louise Bennett, Erin Somers, John Grisham, and more: 23 new books out today!
By
Julia Hass
| October 21, 2025
What’s Real and What’s Not: Gish Jen on Writing Between the Factual Lines
Finding the Sweet Spot Between Memoir and Fiction
By
Gish Jen
| October 21, 2025
Gish Jen and Peggy Orenstein on Storytelling and Legacy
From the
Write-minded
Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner
By
Memoir Nation
| August 21, 2023
Gish Jen on Mining Tension in Fiction
From the
Write-minded
Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner
By
Memoir Nation
| March 13, 2023
19 paperbacks to be grateful for this November.
By
Katie Yee
| November 1, 2022
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Thank You, Mr. Nixon
by Gish Jen, Read by Justin Chien, Catherine Ho, Annie Q, and Eunice Wong
By
Behind the Mic
| April 21, 2022
The Trickster and the Monster: When Nixon Went to China
By
Open Source
| February 18, 2022
6 short story collections you should read this season.
By
Katie Yee
| January 14, 2022
This Is Who We Are: Gish Jen and Peter Ho Davies on the Long History of Anti-Asian Racism in the US
In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell
on
Fiction/Non/Fiction
By
Fiction Non Fiction
| April 8, 2021
Who are America's most talented but under-appreciated writers?
By
Katie Yee
| August 14, 2020
Gish Jen on How Her Family's Love for Baseball Inspired Her Latest Novel
In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on
The Literary Life
Podcast
By
The Literary Life
| February 28, 2020
Life in a Freewheeling, Buoyant Dystopia (With Baseball at Its Center)
Gish Jen Talks to Mimi Lok About
The Resisters
and More
By
Mimi Lok
| February 5, 2020
The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign
Cancel February; stay home and read instead.
By
Emily Temple
| February 3, 2020
The Resisters
Gish Jen
By
Lit Hub Excerpts
| February 3, 2020
20 Great Writers on Their Favorite Story Collections
Lauren Groff, George Saunders, Samanta Schweblin and More
By
John Freeman
| June 4, 2018
7 Novels That Explore Motherhood's Complexities
November 4, 2025
by
Donna Freitas
To Break Up with Friends, or to Murder Them: 5 Novels Featuring Fatal Friendship Failings
November 4, 2025
by
Jenna Satterthwaite
The Trauma Behind the "Good Old Days": Christina Henry on the Dark Trap of Nostalgia in Fiction
November 4, 2025
by
Christina Henry
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"