David Shih
@professorshih.bsky.social
Professor, Writer / 2004 World Series of Poker / davidshih.com
Chinese Prodigal: A Memoir in Eight Arguments (Grove 2023)
Chinese Prodigal: A Memoir in Eight Arguments (Grove 2023)
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Hi friends. The audiobook for Chinese Prodigal was released last week, so if you've been waiting to read it, why not have me read it to you? (Yes, I'm the narrator!) It's available on Audible (Amazon), Apple Books, and Audiobooks.com. Thanks!
February 26, 2024 at 11:02 PM
Hi friends. The audiobook for Chinese Prodigal was released last week, so if you've been waiting to read it, why not have me read it to you? (Yes, I'm the narrator!) It's available on Audible (Amazon), Apple Books, and Audiobooks.com. Thanks!
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I know it sounds insane but this is not a joke, Texas pays millions to bitcoin miners to not eat up electricity during high demand days. That’s a real policy that exists bsky.app/profile/juli...
North Texas, too. Except when they tell us to raise the thermostats so they can give more $$ to bitcoin miners. It's hot everywhere here.
The paradox of south texas: it’s over 100 degrees every day but you have to dress like it’s fall because if you go someplace the air conditioning is set to siberia
September 9, 2023 at 1:59 AM
I know it sounds insane but this is not a joke, Texas pays millions to bitcoin miners to not eat up electricity during high demand days. That’s a real policy that exists bsky.app/profile/juli...
mel tucker’s contract is worth over twice wvu’s budget deficit
September 10, 2023 at 8:28 PM
mel tucker’s contract is worth over twice wvu’s budget deficit
Join me live on WPR's The Larry Meiller Show on the Ideas Network tomorrow (Thursday) morning from 11:00am-11:45am CT to talk about Chinese Prodigal. Over the air and streamable from the show's website. Hope you can tune in and call in to ask a question!
The Larry Meiller Show
Join host Larry Meiller every weekday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on The Ideas Network stations as he discusses environmental and consumer issues, gardening and helpful "how-to" topics with his
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September 6, 2023 at 2:33 PM
Join me live on WPR's The Larry Meiller Show on the Ideas Network tomorrow (Thursday) morning from 11:00am-11:45am CT to talk about Chinese Prodigal. Over the air and streamable from the show's website. Hope you can tune in and call in to ask a question!
My hell money arrived. Love the way it looks!
September 5, 2023 at 6:54 PM
My hell money arrived. Love the way it looks!
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They did Mary Shelley dirty in the Frankenstein film credits.
July 29, 2023 at 7:55 PM
They did Mary Shelley dirty in the Frankenstein film credits.
I get to talk about Chinese Prodigal in this fun interview with Tom Beer, editor-in-chief of Kirkus. You find out why the title is a pun!
A Prodigal Son Reckons With Family and History | Kirkus Reviews
What does it mean to be Asian American? In a new book, David Shih finds answers in the personal and the political.
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August 18, 2023 at 1:13 PM
I get to talk about Chinese Prodigal in this fun interview with Tom Beer, editor-in-chief of Kirkus. You find out why the title is a pun!
This means so much to me, @alexanderchee.bsky.social. Thank you, truly.
This is 1. An excellent description of learning the difference between writing for a community or writing for the status quo, and 2. an excellent introduction to @professorshih.bsky.social’s essays on the publication of his collection, Chinese Prodigal.
August 17, 2023 at 4:01 PM
This means so much to me, @alexanderchee.bsky.social. Thank you, truly.
For Lithub, got to write about reading Asian American writers for the first time.
Reading—and Writing—Like an Asian American
In the early nineties, when I was an English major at the University of Texas, I was reading more than ever but nothing that could be called Asian American literature. Whether or not I was writing …
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August 16, 2023 at 3:56 PM
For Lithub, got to write about reading Asian American writers for the first time.
Perfect take on this topic and the age-old architecture of blaming the victim messaging.
And here is my take on all the Richard Hanania business.
Opinion | Why an Unremarkable Racist Enjoyed the Backing of Billionaires
Like many supremacist ideologues before him, Richard Hanania benefited from elite sponsorship.
www.nytimes.com
August 12, 2023 at 8:35 PM
Perfect take on this topic and the age-old architecture of blaming the victim messaging.
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the hanania affair is most revealing for the simple reason that it is the easiest possible case. do you disavow and exclude the legitimately stupid guy who is openly a genocidal racist? and for a bunch of the commentariat the answer is “maybe…no?”
August 7, 2023 at 9:14 PM
the hanania affair is most revealing for the simple reason that it is the easiest possible case. do you disavow and exclude the legitimately stupid guy who is openly a genocidal racist? and for a bunch of the commentariat the answer is “maybe…no?”
clarence thomas was that guy at your high school with a bmw
August 5, 2023 at 4:50 PM
clarence thomas was that guy at your high school with a bmw
ICYMI On the occasion of James Baldwin's birthday, my essay on the 60th anniversary of The Fire Next Time and what it means to teach it in a new era of book bans.
On the 60th anniversary of The Fire Next Time, my latest for The Progressive, which originally published the book's first essay in 1962. Truly my honor. https://progressive.org/latest/on-the-anniversary-of-the-fire-next-time-shih-20230704/
On the Anniversary of ‘The Fire Next Time’
This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the publication of James Baldwin’s ‘The Fire Next Time,’ a book whose measure of the conscience of its readers, even now, holds true.
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August 2, 2023 at 8:33 PM
ICYMI On the occasion of James Baldwin's birthday, my essay on the 60th anniversary of The Fire Next Time and what it means to teach it in a new era of book bans.
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Resurrecting this fierce rabbit god in the latter half of #YearOfTheHare #兔年 to guard us from the current Hellmouth
[林窯。余淑麗 2011, Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan]
[林窯。余淑麗 2011, Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan]
August 1, 2023 at 1:19 PM
Resurrecting this fierce rabbit god in the latter half of #YearOfTheHare #兔年 to guard us from the current Hellmouth
[林窯。余淑麗 2011, Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan]
[林窯。余淑麗 2011, Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan]
Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally
July 30, 2023 at 12:08 AM
Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally
Honored to be included in this group with @amyhundley.bsky.social for my memoir Chinese Prodigal, forthcoming from Grove Atlantic on August 15! https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/92879-writers-to-watch-10-noteworthy-nonfiction-debuts-fall-2023.html
Writers to Watch: 10 Noteworthy Nonfiction Debuts, Fall 2023
Twinhood, human evolution, infrastructure, and tactile communication are among the wide range of topics covered in this season’s noteworthy nonfiction debuts.
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July 29, 2023 at 10:42 PM
Honored to be included in this group with @amyhundley.bsky.social for my memoir Chinese Prodigal, forthcoming from Grove Atlantic on August 15! https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/92879-writers-to-watch-10-noteworthy-nonfiction-debuts-fall-2023.html
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*taps mic* Hello, good people of the sky. I come with your midweek reminder that we have a #HISTORY feed: 🗃️
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July 26, 2023 at 10:48 AM
*taps mic* Hello, good people of the sky. I come with your midweek reminder that we have a #HISTORY feed: 🗃️
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Her response here is so inspiring. To be this young and this free.
She was a real icon.
"'Oh you fucked up your career' but they're talking about the career they had in mind for me. I fucked up the house in Antigua that the record company dudes wanted to buy. I fucked up *their* career, not mine"
July 26, 2023 at 9:21 PM
Her response here is so inspiring. To be this young and this free.
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URGENT BREAKING NEWS
Tiny Roman dog remains found during Oxford archaeological dig
The 20cm tall canine was discovered at the site of a Roman villa at Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire.
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July 25, 2023 at 12:23 PM
URGENT BREAKING NEWS
he looks like namath when namath was on the brady bunch
Aaron Rodgers looks like he’s on a reality show where washed-up celebrities see if they can make it through an NFL training camp
July 25, 2023 at 5:23 AM
he looks like namath when namath was on the brady bunch
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The dismantling of Twitter is a watershed moment with serious implications for our democracy.
Re-upping “On Twitter’s End.”
This one’s for you @jack.bsky.social.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sherrilyn/p/on-twitters-end?r=1sqa3e&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Re-upping “On Twitter’s End.”
This one’s for you @jack.bsky.social.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sherrilyn/p/on-twitters-end?r=1sqa3e&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
On Twitter's End
A Moment of Truth for American Business
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July 24, 2023 at 11:57 PM
The dismantling of Twitter is a watershed moment with serious implications for our democracy.
Re-upping “On Twitter’s End.”
This one’s for you @jack.bsky.social.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sherrilyn/p/on-twitters-end?r=1sqa3e&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Re-upping “On Twitter’s End.”
This one’s for you @jack.bsky.social.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sherrilyn/p/on-twitters-end?r=1sqa3e&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post