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ENGL 5308 - U.S. Ethnic Literature Guide

Resources for Summer 2023 graduate course.

Resources for Han's Nights When Nothing Happened

Written Interviews:

Interview with Carissa Chesanek
Bomb Magazine, Nov. 2020
Interview with Taylor Hickney
X-R-A-Y, Nov. 2020
Interview with Poets & Writers Magazine
Nov. 2020
Interview with Scott Simon
Weekend Edition Saturday, Nov. 2020

From the author:

The Messiness of the Suburban Narrative
The Paris Review, Nov. 2020
The Long Fall: The Weird Dream That Was 2020
Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2020

The Avid Reader Episode 576

Writer's Bone

Apple Sauced

debutiful

Writing F(r)iction

The Avid Reader Episode 575

NovelClass

W/MFA

Radical Thinkers

'Nights When Nothing Happened' Is Quietly Lovely — Maybe A Little Too Quiet
Review by Leland Cheuk for NPR
Simon Han’s ‘Nights When Nothing Happened’ is a poignant study of the immigrant experience
Review by Ron Charles for the Washington Post
In This Debut Novel, a Chinese Immigrant Keeps His Sleepwalking Sister’s Secrets
Review by Thessaly La Force for the NY Times
A Haunting New Novel Asks Whether Immigrants in America Can Ever Feel Truly Safe
Review by Annabel Gutterman for Time Magazine
Disconnection and Family in “Nights When Nothing Happened”
Review by Don J. Rather for the Southern Review of Books
Review: Nights When Nothing Happened
Review by Leslie Hinson for BookPage
In ‘Nights When Nothing Happened,’ a Chinese immigrant family struggles to fit into suburban America
Review by Lauren Francis-Sharma for the San Francisco Chronicle
Simon Han’s Debut Novel Considers What It Means to Live Between Two Worlds
Review by Joy Ramirez for Chapter16

Critical article referencing Nights When Nothing Happened:

BETWEEN THE PAGES OF CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
By Melanie Ho and Susan Kason for PopMatters, April 20, 2021

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