Becky Zhang
Becky (PO '22) is an English and Computer Science major from Hong Kong.
Oyler and the Emperor“I know astrology is fake [...] who cares? It’s real enough to influence how real people think.” So says the unnamed narrator of Fake Accounts, Lauren Oyler’s debut novel about a very online woman in the era of Donald Trump’s inauguration. Like the narrator, book critic Oyler offers the following theory on contemporary reality: life outside the internet is no more “real” than that within. Likewise, life can be just as fake offline.
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Interview with Miriam Toews"Going from journalism to fiction, the common denominator was the need to step outside of the story to observe, witness, and document it."
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Interview with Sally Wen Mao“In this life I have worshipped so many lies. Then I workshop them, make them better.”
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Interview with José Olivarez"For me, it’s not language I’m necessarily putting my faith in, because all of my languages come from violence, from colonialism. It’s people that I put my faith in. How I can use language to build towards the people and communities that I care about is always where I end up going."
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