Alex Kudera's Blog
November 30, 2025
November 29, 2025
Which Side Are You On by Ryan Lee Wong
Ryan Lee Wong's Which Side Are You On is primarily a short, satisfying novel of Korean American experience in South California, but it also connects to Black American experience, the L.A. riots, Chinese, Black, and Korean activism, mother-son relationships, and more. I searched online while reading this past week and learned via Facebook post that his father passed on earlier this year; the dad in the book bears a strong resemblance to the father of the obituary.
November 27, 2025
November 23, 2025
November 19, 2025
brief note on White Mythology
I finished the longer of the two novels included in W.D. Clarke's White Mythology, and I highly recommend it. The novel I read is about 335 pages, and it is followed by a novella of about 120 pages. The longer one includes extraordinary sentences very reminiscent, at times, of the prose we see in early Pynchon, some Barth, Rushdie, and so on.
November 15, 2025
November 12, 2025
Dr. Ed
~~ from White Mythology by W.D. Clarke
