MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:The new novel "Yellowface" is about a thief - namely, June Hayward, a writer - not a particularly successful writer. KUANG: She's extremely aware of what she's doing, and she's doing it deliberately. Almost every other Asian American character in the novel does not have very nice things to say about Athena either, and...KELLY: Yeah. And she's used to being the only Asian American in the room. And I think that a lot of our standards about cultural appropriation are language about - don't write outside of your own lane.

Source: CNN May 16, 2023 21:45 UTC