{"id":2091,"date":"2010-06-30T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2010-07-06T10:49:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T14:49:33","slug":"summer-reads-issue-1-contributors-craig-santos-perez-henry-w-leung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/30\/summer-reads-issue-1-contributors-craig-santos-perez-henry-w-leung\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reads: Issue 1 Contributors Craig Santos Perez & Henry W. Leung"},"content":{"rendered":"

For our Summer Reads<\/strong> series, we’ve asked contributors from Issue 1<\/a> to share what they’ve been reading or plan to read this summer. This week’s installment features reads from Craig Santos Perez<\/a> and Henry W. Leung<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Writes Craig,<\/p>\n

” . . . here are three books that i just read for this summer:<\/p>\n

Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Bus<\/em><\/a>, Gizelle Gajelonia (Tinfish Press)
\nShout Ha! to the Sky<\/em><\/a>, Robert Sullivan (Salt)
\nZong!<\/em> <\/a>M. Nourbese Philip (Wesleyan)”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Henry says,<\/p>\n

“I’m working on a Fulbright application for a research novel in China,
\nso my reading for the next week will be research on the little that’s
\nbeen written in English about contemporary (actual contemporary, not
\nheavily political post-Mao post-CR) China. They include:<\/p>\n

Yiyun Li – A Thousand Years of Good Prayers<\/em><\/a>
\nShouhua Qi – Red Guard Fantasies and Other Stories<\/em><\/a>
\nXiaolu Guo – Lovers in the Age of Indifference<\/em>
\nDeanna Fei – A Thread of Sky<\/em><\/a> (product of a 2002 Fulbright in China)
\nGeling Yan – The Banquet Bug<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

and translations:
\nNew Generation: Poems from China Today<\/em><\/a>
\nPearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China<\/em><\/a>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many thanks to Craig and Henry, for sharing their reading lists with us.\u00a0 You can check out Henry’s poem “Question for a Painter<\/a>” and Craig’s review of <\/a>Skirt Full of Black<\/a> <\/em>in Issue 1 of <\/a>Lantern Review<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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