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Simu Lui’s “We Were Dreamers”

Buckle up, buttercups, because there’s a lot to unpack here. Simu Lui of Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings fame wrote a memoir and it is such a daggum journey. I first picked up We Were Dreamers because I was trying to get an interview with him for work for AAPI monthContinue reading “Simu Lui’s “We Were Dreamers””

“These Violent Delights” By Chloe Gong

Retellings of the classics are everywhere right now. Some are done better than others, and Chloe Gong’s These Violent Delights is definitely on the list of more imaginative takes. I mean, it’s Romeo and Juliette… but in 1920’s Shanghai… with gang feuds… and monsters. It sounds like a mess, but I think it works, eventually.Continue reading ““These Violent Delights” By Chloe Gong”