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I’ll get that feeling of being a fraud, that in a basic way I don’t even know how to construct a proper story. Sometimes I do wish I’d taken some fiction workshops, because occasionally I’ll read an interview with a writer and they’ll be talking about something craft-y and I’ll realize I have Yu has joked that his parents would have killed him if he’d pursued an MFA, and in our e-mail chat, he said that although he minored in creative writing in college, at the University of California, Berkeley, I think I’mĪware of some of my limitations, but I hope that in the course of this book being published I’ll learn more of them, and if and when I get to write another book, I’d love to try to leave my comfort

“Not that I’m resigned to having a narrow range. My sensibility is something that comes pretty naturally, the downside being that I also can’t escape it,” he said. Was it greatly influenced by others, or did he come to it on his own? “For better or worse, I’d say In an e-mail conversation, I recently asked Yu about his high-tech/literary/speculative-fiction style. Tacit, limiting, ultimately false assumptions, which added up to a severely impoverished conception of what was possible in And it was because my ideas were assumptions. on Amazon, “blew the doors off the empty little space that had previously housed my puny imagination. (George Saunders’s “ CivilWarLand in Bad Decline,” he says in a Q. He has spoken before aboutĬreating characters and universes, and his first efforts at figuring out how to become a writer. Yu is also the author of a story collection, “Third Class Superhero,” and in 2007, the National Book Foundation named him one of its “5 Monson wrote, Yu is “very funny, usually proportional to the wildness of his inventions.”

The sum of its component parts.” He also compared the book (narrated by a time-machine repairman who lives with a virtual dog and a neurotic piece of software) to the work of Douglas Adams. Charles Yu’s first novel, “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe,” was reviewed for us this past weekend by Ander Monson, who called it “a complex, brainy, genre-hopping joyride of a story, far more than

Charles yu short stories