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10/21: Wells College

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
VISITING WRITERS SERIES – SUNG J. WOO
Sponsored by: English Department
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Art Exhibit Room, Macmillan Hall

Sung J. Woo, author of the novel Everything Asian, will visit the Wells College campus for a reading. While on campus, he will be visiting classes for discussions with Wells students. The Wells College Visiting Writers Series is supported by grants from The New York State Council on the Arts, the Virginia Kent Cummins Writers-in-Residence Fund, and the Mildred Walker Fiction Writer Fund.

This event is open to the Wells community and the public. There is no charge for this event.

[link to Ithaca Journal]

Alumni Profile at Cornell’s College of Arts & Sciences

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cornell_artsA few months ago, I gave an interview for the revamped website for Cornell’s Colleges of Arts & Sciences:

Sung Woo’s first novel, “Everything Asian,” has just been released. Yet Sung began at Cornell in the College of Engineering, “on a practical career path,” studying material science engineering. “I’ve always been decent in math,” he explains, “and I thought I could grin and bear it for four years.” He lasted one semester.

You can read the rest of it at the Alumni Profiles section.

From Blurbee to Blurber

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From_Wonso_Pond_49dba55b87c1eA few months back, I was approached by the The Feminist Press to check out a book, From Wonso Pond, “A classic revolutionary novel of the 1930s and the first complete work written by a woman before the Korean War to be published in English.”  So after reading it, I emailed them the following:

How refreshing it is to have a good old-fashioned story, told without narrative tricks or artifice.  Kang Kyong-ae’s From Wonso Pond is a powerful novel that charts the struggles of three impassioned characters as they learn to live, work, and love.  The questions she poses and the issues she tackles are as universal as they are enduring.  This essential work should be required reading for anyone interested in Korean culture.

– Sung J. Woo, author of Everything Asian: A Novel

And just like that, I went from being a blurbee to a blurber.  The story is a throwback, and it has the same sort of passion Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle does.

And on the subject of working hard for a living, tomorrow, I’ll be at Chicklet Book’s Author! Author! Book Festival in Princeton, signing books from 1pm to 3pm at the Signing Tent with fellow authors Victoria Adler, Jean Hollander, DeBerry & Grant, Meg Cox, Elizabeth Joy Arnold, and Lara M. Zeises.  The festival is on from 10am until 4pm, so come on by and say hello if you are in the area.