"I feel queasy about the idea of having non-Asians taking center stage in one of my books. I would feel guilty about it, as if I were trying to deny my ethnic heritage, even though this is precisely what I am suggesting we should be free to do."
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On the writing dilemmas that he faces in āDon Lee: The Ethnic Literature Boxā in Guernica Magazine (2012 Jun 25)
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