![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Narration: As a kid growing up in Los Angeles in the 1970s and ’80s, Charlie Yu watched a lot of TV. This year, all incoming first-year and transfer students read the novel as part of On The Same Page, a program from the College of Letters and Science. real connection can come about.”Ĭharles Yu is the author of the 2020 book, Interior Chinatown. ![]() "And we, hopefully, see the ways in which the person underneath peeks out and can’t be fully covered by what’s there. "I hope that people can see that, in one way or another, all the characters in this book are wearing a mask and a costume, to some extent, and they don’t fit them perfectly,” said Yu. Incoming UC Berkeley students read the book over the summer as part of On The Same Page, a program from the College of Letters and Science, so they’d have something in common to talk about throughout the year - socially, in classes and at events designed to explore the book’s themes. In this episode of Berkeley Voices, Charles Yu discusses his 2020 book, Interior Chinatown, which goes inside the mind of a young Asian American man trying to make it in Hollywood. Follow Berkeley Voices, podcast about the people and research that makes UC Berkeley the world-changing place that it is. ![]()
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