Hua Hsu (born 1977)[1] is an American writer and academic, based in New York City. He is a professor of English at Bard College and a staff writer at The New Yorker. His work includes investigations of immigrant culture in the United States, as well as public perceptions of diversity and multiculturalism. He is the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific. His second book, Stay True: A Memoir, was published in September 2022.
A second-generation Taiwanese American, Hsu was born in 1977 in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois[2] before moving to Plano, then Richardson, Texas.[3] His family moved to southern California,[3] then ultimately Cupertino, California,[4] where his father was an engineer; his mother stayed at home with Hua.[3] The family lived in Cupertino from about the time Hua was 9 to 18, though his father moved to Taiwan to pursue work and Hua often spent summers and other school vacations there.[5]
Hsu, Hua (January–February 2009). "The end of White America?". U.S. The Atlantic.
— (April 18, 2012). "All hail the chairmen : Jonathan Olivares's 'Taxonomy of Office Chairs'". Los Angeles Review of Books.
— (September 5, 2012). "Michael K. Williams reveals his Omar Mix". Vulture.
— (December 13, 2012). "Wokking the Suburbs". Lucky Peach.
— (September 26, 2014). "The Simpsons go to China". Currency. The New Yorker.[a]
— (October 16, 2014). "Before gentrification, a city covered in graffiti". Cultural Comment. The New Yorker.[a]
— (February 22, 2016). "A god dream : Kanye West unveils a new album, 'The Life of Pablo'". The Critics. Pop Music. The New Yorker. 92 (2): 66–68.[b]
— (March 7, 2016). "The struggle : Macklemore wrestles with his place in hip-hop". The Critics. Pop Music. The New Yorker. 92 (4): 70–71.[c]
— (July 25, 2016). "Pale fire : is whiteness a privilege or a plight?". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 92 (22): 63–66.[d]
— (September 21, 2016). "The Critic Who Convinced Me That Criticism Could Be Art". The New Yorker.
— (October 3, 2016). "Bon Iver's new voice". The Critics. Pop Music. The New Yorker.
— (January 4, 2017). "Listening to George Michael in Taiwan". Cultural Comment [web only]. The New Yorker.
— (April 24, 2017). "Praise songs : Alice Coltrane in Sanskrit". The Critics. Pop Music. The New Yorker. 93 (10): 98–99.[e]
— (May 1, 2017). "Legacy media : Kendrick Lamar's sense of debt to those who came before". The Critics. Pop Music. The New Yorker. 93 (11): 74–75.[f]
— (September 18, 2017). "Rostam Batmanglij defines his musical identity". Pop Music. The New Yorker.
— (December 4, 2017). "Forward march : Bjõrk's visions of the future". The Critics. Pop Music. The New Yorker. 93 (39): 62–64.[g]
— (May 20, 2019). "Machine yearning : Holly Herndon's search for a new art form for our tech obsessions". The Critics. Pop Music. The New Yorker. 95 (13): 83–84.[h]
— (December 9, 2019). "Burial's Search for Fleeting Moments". Pop Music. The New Yorker.
— (January 6, 2020). "Exclude me in : in the seventes, a group of Asian–American writers decided it was their turn". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 95 (43): 58–63.[i]
— (September 21, 2020). "The musical monk : rediscovering Beverly Glenn-Copeland's inward-looking sounds". The Critics. Pop Music. The New Yorker. 96 (28): 59–60.[j]
— (December 21, 2020). "Whims : Paul McCartney's surprisingly playful pandemic album". The Critics. Pop Music. The New Yorker. 96 (41): 80–81.[k]
— (April 5, 2021). "Game over : how athletes began telling a new story about sports". The Critics. Podcast Dept. The New Yorker. 97 (7): 63–65.[l]
— (August 22, 2022). "My dad and Kurt Cobain : alternative culture and a fax machine bridged an ocean". Personal History. The New Yorker. 98 (25): 24–29.
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^Romano, Evan (March 13, 2017). "Brooklyn 100 Influencer: Hua Hsu, The 'New Yorker'". Brooklyn Magazine. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
^Nguyen, Viet Thanh (July 22, 2016). "Reconsidering the Work of a Chinese Immigrant Writer of the 1930s". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
^"Contributors: Hua Hsu". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
^"Hua Hsu". New America. Retrieved November 29, 2021.
^"Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu". Publishers Weekly. May 19, 2022. Retrieved August 20, 2022.
^Szalai, Jennifer (September 29, 2022). "A Formative Friendship Cut Short by Tragedy". New York Times. Retrieved November 22, 2022.
^"The 10 Best Books of 2022". The New York Times. November 29, 2022. Retrieved November 30, 2022.
^"The 10 Best Books of 2022". The Washington Post. November 17, 2022. Retrieved November 30, 2022.
^"2023 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes. May 8, 2023. Retrieved May 8, 2023.
^Varno, David (February 1, 2023). "NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2022". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
^"The 100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture 2017". Brooklyn Magazine. March 13, 2017. Retrieved September 12, 2017.