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Teddy Wayne on Loving the Outcasts

Morgan Talty on Capturing the Uniqueness of Tribal Settings and Finding the Logic of a Story

Joseph Han on American Imperialism and the Korean Forever War

Kirstin Chen on Shattering the Model Minority Myth

Marie Myung-Ok Lee on the Challenge of Writing Satire in Present-Day America

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