425: Understanding Lives that Are Not Our Own through Short Stories - Interview

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, Lori is interviewing May-lee Chai. They’ll be talking about understanding lives unlike our own</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and her book</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tomorrow in Shanghai and Other Stories</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">May-lee Chai is the author of eleven books of fiction, nonfiction, and translation, including her latest short story collection,</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Tomorrow in Shanghai & Other Stories</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Her last story collection,</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Useful Phrases for Immigrants</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, won the 2019 American Book Award. She teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at San Francisco State University. Her writing has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman (selected by Tayari Jones), Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, named a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book, and recipient of an honorable mention for the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Book Awards. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her short prose has appeared widely, including in Seventeen, New England Review, Longreads, Paris Review Online, Kenyon Review Online, Los Angeles Times, Best Small Fictions anthology, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and cited as Notable in both the Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays anthologies.</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can find her on her <a href= "http://may-leechai.com">website</a> or follow her on <a href= "https://twitter.com/mayleechai">Twitter</a> or <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/May-lee-Chai-Writer-108225445200">Facebook</a>.</span></p> <p> </p> <h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode May-lee Chai and Lori discuss:</span></h3> <ul> <li style="fo