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Jinwoo Chong

Jinwoo Chong
Jinwoo Chong is the author of the novel Flux, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and VCU Cabell First Novel awards, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and named a best book of the year by Esquire, GQ, and Cosmopolitan. His short stories and other work have appeared in The Southern Review, Guernica, The Rumpus, Literary Hub, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Electric Literature. He lives in New York City.


Why I Spent Part of My Advance Money to See Adele Live

Jinwoo Chong on the Tension Between Creative Dreams and the Financial Realities of Publishing
March 4, 2025  By Jinwoo Chong
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