![]() “I’m going to go melt into a puddle right now.”Ĭharles Yu, author of "Interior Chinatown" Rozette Rago/The New York Times/Redux “I will probably just stop talking now,” he added. I prepared nothing, which tells you about how realistic I thought this was,” he said, quipping that it all felt like a simulation. “I can’t feel anything in my body right now. When accepting the award on camera, Yu was visibly surprised, laughing in disbelief. “By turns hilarious and flat-out heartbreaking, Charles Yu’s ‘Interior Chinatown’ is a bright, bold, gut punch of a novel,” said the judges’ statement. ![]() In a virtually -streamed ceremony, the 2020 judging committee praised the book, which was written in the form of a screenplay, as a “wonderfully inventive work.” The novel, published in January by Pantheon Books, follows an Asian film actor stuck in the background roles of “Generic Asian Man” or “Delivery Guy” with very few lines, while yearning to one day become the “Kung Fu Guy.” ![]() Author and TV writer Charles Yu won the National Book Award for Fiction on Wednesday night for his novel “Interior Chinatown,” a satire about typecasting and racism in Hollywood. ![]()
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