"I’d like to see us get to the point where Asian American authors can have Asian American characters and a big deal isn’t made about it, or at least so it’s not the first thing mentioned…"
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On what he hopes for the future of Asian American writers in “Don Lee: The Ethnic Literature Box” in Guernica Magazine (2012 Jun 25)
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