In this chapter, they discuss a profile on Randall Park who is directing his debut feature based on a graphic novel by Adrian Tomina. They delve into the process of putting the profile together and discuss the complexities of the different layers and interpretations of the graphic novel, as well as the relevance of the adaptation in the current landscape of positive representation in media.
Hua Hsu is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His book Stay True won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for memoir.
“I've worked as a journalist … for quite a while. … But this [book] was the thing that was always in the back of my mind. Like, this was the thing that a lot of that was in service of. Just becoming better at describing a song or describing the look of someone's face—these were all things that I implicitly understood as skills I needed to acquire. ... It is sort of an origin story for why I got so obsessive about writing.”
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