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Michael Chin
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in Utica, New York
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January 2012
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https://www.goodreads.com/miketchin
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When I started this blog, ten years ago today, I didn’t know what I was doing. I was in my late twenties and single. I had friends near and far. Family I saw at Thanksgiving time and Christmas. I worked a respectable office job, but as I came to the end of five years of chipping away at a master’s degree in writing, a class at a time over night school and weekends, I knew I wanted a different life
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My Grandfather's an Immigrant, and So Is Yours
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Circus Folk
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Territories
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The A Cappella Book
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2012
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You Might Forget the Sky Was Ever Blue
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2019
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Starlight
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2018
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THE LONG WAY HOME: STORIES
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Stories Wrestling Can Tell
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2023
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Free Throw
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Michael’s Recent Updates
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| From busted marriages to cycles of dysfunction in family to a challenge to a gunfight, the desert-set stories in The Lowest Basin are a testament to all the things people and a place might never leave behind. This book’s rough around every edge and u ...more | |
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| It’s rare to come upon a book so deeply imagined as The Devil’s Library. It’s the kind of collection that sticks with you for just how immersive its mythology is; I’ll be thinking about and returning to this one for a while. | |
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| Some books are just cooler. Take All and Then None of You, a collection that comes complete with QR codes to a song per story, giving a heck of a soundtrack alongside some great short fiction (and an emotional stunner of a novella at the end). Loved ...more | |
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| This collection, Show Me Where the Hurt Is, was such a powerful meditation on grief—losing people to death, to relationships that will never be the same. Losing a shadow and all the literal and metaphorical implications that come with it. I’ll be thi ...more | |
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| I’ve been thinking a lot about chronic tension in stories, and, between its eponymous migraines and grief and what it means to have an adult social life, The Migraine Diaries is a master class. Another great title from JackLeg Press, and a book every ...more | |
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I’m not sure I’ve encountered a book that *tastes * so much like cigarettes—capturing nostalgia and a sense cringe in all the warmest, grossest, most satisfying ways. Add Burn to your reading list ASAP. |
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| The Rolodex Happenings is, itself, a happening—book of precise moments, artfully, expertly captured on the page. | |
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“Cold pizza is the official food of misspelled tattoos, one-night stands, and collect calls from county jail.” Not only is This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers crazy good, but, as this Pi Day winds down, it’s worth noting he’s also come up with ...more |
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| Any Gesture is powerful, inventive, and deeply emotional. | |
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| Midlife Abecedarian is clever, nostalgic, and hard to stop reading and rereading. | |