Were there moments where the artifice of the story stood out to you? The book is written as a story within another work of fiction, interweaving the plot of a cop show with the experiences of Willis as an actor.

What did you make of the structure of the story, written as a teleplay?.

Have you experienced similar tensions in your own life? Throughout the book, Willis Wu feels torn between his own identity and the roles he is pressured to fill as an Asian American actor.WARNING: Spoiler alert on questions further down You can also submit your own questions for Charles Yu on our Google form. Learn more about the book club here.īelow are questions to help guide your discussions as you read the book over the next month. “Interior Chinatown” is the latest of Hulu’s book-to-television adaptations, which includes recent series orders for “Tiny Beautiful Things,” “The Other Black Girl,” and “Black Cake.” The drama comes on the heels of Hulu’s critically-acclaimed adaptations such as “Nine Perfect Strangers,” “Normal People,” and “Conversations with Friends,” and the Emmy Award winning limited series “Dopesick.Our February 2021 pick for Now Read This, the PBS NewsHour’s book club with The New York Times, is Charles Yu’s “Interior Chinatown.” Become a member of the Now Read This book club by joining our Facebook group, or by signing up to our newsletter. Rideback is represented by UTA and Myman Greenspan. Yu is represented by UTA, The Book Group and Hansen Jacobson. Waititi represented by CAA, Manage-ment, ID and Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman, Rubenstein, Kohner, Endlich & Gellman. Yang is repped by Artists First, CAA, SRDA. Yu holds several years of writing experience in the TV space, having penned episodes of HBO’s “Westworld,” FX’s “Legion,” AMC’s “Lodge 49” and Facebook’s “Sorry For Your Loss.” His previous printed works include the novel “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe,” published in 2010, and short story collections “Third Class Superhero” and “Sorry Please Thank You.” Taiki Waititi will direct the pilot as well as serve as an executive producer with Participant’s Jeff Skoll, Miura Kite, and Dive’s Garrett Basch. Yu will also serve as showrunner and executive producer alongside Dan Lin, Lindsey Liberatore, Elsie Choi for Rideback. Rideback, Participant and Dive will executive produce the series which hails from 20th Television.

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