Kwon, author of “The Incendiaries.” The two writers met at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College, in Vermont, in 2009. “I haven’t surveyed exactly who she’s blurbed,” Kwon continued, “but I have especially noticed her name on the books of Asian-American women who are coming out with their first books. “One of my longstanding irritations with the way that we view the world,” she said, “is like, who’s going to be the next Jhumpa Lahiri? Who’s going to be the next Amy Tan? “I know something about what it’s like to be an Asian-American woman who’s trying to get her voice out there with a debut novel,” she said.

Source: New York Times December 20, 2018 18:56 UTC