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The World According to Tao (and Wesley Chu)

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In traditional Chinese philosophy, the Tao is the intuitive knowing of "life" that cannot be grasped full-heartedly as...

On this day, July 29, in 1965, novelist Chang-Rae Lee was born in South Korea (his family immigrated to the United States when he was three years old). He is the author of six novels so far, which have brought him a PEN/Hemingway Award (for Native Speaker), an Asian/American Literary Award (for A Gesture Life), a Dayton Literary Peace Prize as well as a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his 2010 novel The Surrendered, and finalist status for 2014’s On Such a Full Sea for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His latest work, My Year Abroad, was published this February. Today he turns 56.

Roen Tan

The World According to Tao (and Wesley Chu)

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