Hua Hsu
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- Sep 9, 2026
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- Jul 14, 2026
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Can You Write a Memoir in the Third Person? (opens the original)
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“A boy stands at the crossroads, considers his limited options.” The opening line of Brian Dillon’s memoir, “Ambivalence: An Education,” maps a juncture familiar to many. As a teen-ager in Ireland in the nineteen-eighties, Dillon toggled between constant states of panic and boredom, hoping to avoid the strictures of a conventional life style and, consequently, the moribund, mainstream tastes that come with it. A precocious reader and thinker, the young Dillon grows enamored with the radical poss
How a Skateboarder Sees Los Angeles (opens the original)
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Jerry Hsu grew up in San Jose, about an hour south of San Francisco, and, for a time, he assumed he would never leave. He didn’t need to. In the late nineties and two-thousands, Hsu and his daredevil friends had proudly put their sleepy Silicon Valley city on the map as an unlikely skateboarding capital. He noticed that young skateboarders from around the country were moving to San Jose, “and it had to do with my group of friends and these videos we were making,” he told me. “It’s like when a ra
An Unbelieverâs View of the Jonestown Massacre (opens the original)
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On November 18, 1978, more than nine hundred members of the Peoples Temple died at Jonestown, the agricultural settlement they had founded in a remote part of northern Guyana. Many, in answering the call to ârevolutionary suicide,â drank Fla-Vor-Aid laced with cyanide; others who resisted were forcibly dosed. But nearly all of the congregants had ended up here, thousands of miles from home, because of Jim Jones. Fiery and charismatic, Jones established what would become the Peoples Temple in
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