In addition to mimicking the format of a teleplay, Yu made another unconventional stylistic choice by writing in the second person. But I think the police procedural format is so compelling for me to use, because it’s one of our dominant forms, like the superhero movie and the medical show.” It’s just so binge-able when it’s on, you could just keep going, watching it. Along with his parents, Wu lives in Chinatown and is cast as a background character in “Black and White,” a fictional police procedural TV series that’s a thinly veiled parody of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” That character was Willis Wu, the novel’s protagonist. Steph Cha shares a meal and some notes on performing identity with the “Interior Chinatown” author. Still, I felt from the inside that there was something that wasn’t quite getting unlocked.”īooks Charles Yu knows the world isn’t black and white I was showing them to my agent, and she was really encouraging and supportive and enthusiastic about some of the material. “I went through a lot of versions of it,” Yu recalls. I didn’t know what I was doing.” He tried different ways of telling the story, from a conventional novel to “another stage where it was fairy tales.” But none of those permutations felt right. “I had a lot of ideas about it having something to do with magic, with magical realism. “When I started, I had a very different conception of what the book would be,” Yu says. “I had a bunch of false starts and dead ends,” he recalls. He started trying to write “Interior Chinatown” in 2012, but kept finding reasons to put it aside. For Yu, a corporate attorney turned novelist and television writer, figuring out how to channel his perceptions of cultural bias into a book was a struggle.
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