"I think most Asian American writers, especially younger ones, are tired of the standard stories about discrimination and assimilation, or those set in the ancient hinterlands of our countries of ethnic origin. Those stories are no longer pertinent or urgent to most of us. Although we have not yet entered into a post-racial era, and although bigotry still rages on, itās not something that people want to explore or dramatize in every single book or storyā¦"
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On the struggles of being an Asian American writer in āāI Took It As a Dare,ā An Interview with Don Leeā in Superstition Review
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