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Six Classical Poems

Six classical Chinese poems depicting people, places, and things.

six-classical-poemsAustin WoernerOctober 19, 2019Annotated edition

汪曾祺，《多年父子成兄弟》

wang-zenqi-duonian-fuziAustin WoernerOctober 19, 2019Annotated edition, Wang Zengqi 汪曾祺, Chinese, Character profiles, Memoir, Creative Nonfiction

张爱玲，《公寓生活记趣》

Eileen Chang on the pleasures of apartment living. A lesser-known personal essay by the famous author, set during wartime Shanghai.

eileen-chang-gongyu-shengAustin WoernerOctober 19, 2019Annotated edition, Eileen Chang 张爱玲, Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, Writing about places, Chinese, WOC190

朱自清，《背影》

zhu-ziqing-beiyingAustin WoernerOctober 19, 2019Annotated edition, Chinese, Memoir, Zhu Ziqing 朱自清, Creative Nonfiction, Character profiles

Joseph Mitchell, "Professor Sea Gull"

Joseph Mitchell’s famous 1942 profile of Joe Gould, the Greenwich Village eccentric who claimed to be writing a voluminous “Oral History of Our Time.”

mitchell-professor-sea-guAustin WoernerSeptember 28, 2019Annotated edition, Joseph Mitchell, Creative Nonfiction, Literary journalism, Character profiles

蔡崇达，《皮囊》

cai-chongda-pinangAustin WoernerSeptember 25, 2019Annotated edition, Chinese, Cai Chongda 蔡崇达, Memoir, Character profiles

Susan Orlean, "The Maui Surfer Girls"

Susan Orleans profiles a group of free-living teenage surfer girls in Hawaii.

susan-orlean-maui-surfer, character profilesAustin WoernerJuly 31, 2019Annotated edition, Susan Orlean, Creative Nonfiction, Character profiles, Literary journalism, WOC190