"For many years, I was writing and working as a lawyer at the same time, and they were two very separate things," said Yu, 45. I’m not a grown-up."Īs a boy, Yu, loved writing poems, but writing was just a hobby for a while. "I went to law school like a good Asian boy, but not that good," Yu joked, adding that the original plan was medical school. Here are a few highlights from the keynote. Yu said in his introduction that he was in shock and still processing the events of this week, but he urged viewers to go to and for more information on how to help. Researchers have found that anti-Asian language surged on Twitter after Trump first tweeted the slur "Chinese virus," according to the Washington Post. Many have linked the crisis to former President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly used racist language to describe the coronavirus. Over the course of a virtual SXSW conversation with journalist Lisa Ling, he unpacked his experience as an Asian American man and his path to becoming a celebrated writer. Though the keynote was recorded "a couple of weeks ago," Yu and Ling talked at length about the rise in violence against Asian Americans over the past year. Yu's 2020 novel "Interior Chinatown" was a New York Times bestseller and won the National Book Award for Fiction. "They were individuals, human beings with lives and families," he said of those killed. "Those who were killed were more than just victims," author Charles Yu said in an introduction to his Friday keynote during South by Southwest. Those opening remarks were recorded just days ago, in light of a spree of attacks at Atlanta-area spas that left 8 dead, mostly women of Asian descent.
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