Charles Yu

Charles Yu received the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award for his short story collection, Third Class Superhero. His first novel, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, was a New York Times Notable Book and named by Time magazine as one of the Best Books of 2010. His writing has appeared in Harvard Review, The New York Times, Playboy, and Oxford American, among other places. Charles Yu's most recent book is Sorry Please Thank You. He lives in Santa Monica.

Articles

A Drop of Concentrated Empathy: On Brokenness and Beauty in the Stories of George Saunders
COMPRESSION TRANSFORMS A SUBSTANCE. The fundamental properties of the object can undergo such radical change that it is no longer recognizable. George Saunders does this to language: he takes words and feelings and presses them together until they reach some kind ...
Charles YuFeb 28, 2013
World-Shifting: Haruki Murakami's "1Q84"
The novel is strongest when it sticks to its most powerful idea, the one implied by its title: the world as a kind of question....
Charles YuDec 12, 2011

Charles Yu

Articles

A Drop of Concentrated Empathy: On Brokenness and Beauty in the Stories of George Saunders

World-Shifting: Haruki Murakami's "1Q84"