The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Yang, Wesley

The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays

One of the most acclaimed essayists of his generation, Wesley Yang writes about race and sex without...
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The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Yang, Wesley

The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays

$65.93

The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays

$65.93
Author: Wesley Yang
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

One of the most acclaimed essayists of his generation, Wesley Yang writes about race and sex without the jargon, formulas, and polite lies that bore us all. His powerful debut, The Souls of Yellow Folk, does more than collect a decade's worth of cult-reputation essays--it corrals new American herds of pickup artists, school shooters, mandarin zombies, and immigrant strivers, and exposes them to scrutiny, empathy, and polemical force.

In his celebrated and prescient essay "The Face of Seung-Hui Cho," Yang explores the deranged logic of the Virginia Tech shooter. In his National Magazine Award-winning "Paper Tigers," he explores the intersection of Asian values and the American dream, and the inner torment of the child exposed to "tiger mother" parenting. And in his close reading of New York Magazine's popular Sex Diaries, he was among the first critics to take seriously today's Internet-mediated dating lives.

Yang catches these ugly trends early because he has felt at various times implicated in them, and he does not exempt himself from his radical honesty. His essays retain the thrill of discovery, the wary eye of the first explorer, and the rueful admission of the first exposed.



Author: Wesley Yang
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/13/2018
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.80w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780393241747


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2018 pg. 57
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2018
Publishers Weekly 08/27/2018
Booklist 10/01/2018 pg. 5
Library Journal 10/01/2018 pg. 72

About the Author
Yang, Wesley: - Wesley Yang has written for the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, the New York Times Book Review, New York Magazine, Esquire, Tablet, and n+1. His work has appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Magazine Writing, Best Creative Nonfiction, and Best American Nonrequired Reading. He lives in Montreal.

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