Hua Hsu on his new book 'Stay True'
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
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Fax Machines
It was the first instantaneous text slash picture communications that most of us had any access to, but mostly they lived... I never had a fax machine and I lived most of my life in the fax machine era. The way it worked, it would print on this thermal paper and it would never look as good as whatever the original letter was. It just feels as though this letter that you've written your father or that your father's written you has been run through a washing machine or something. Everything just arrives looking a little bit off. You'd all be together, but in the times that you were in the States during the school year, you would send each other faxes.
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