Wesley Yang writes for New York and other publications.

“If a person remains true to some part of their experience, no matter what it is, and they present it in full candor, there’s value to that. People will recognize it. Once I knew that was true, I knew I could do this.”

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Show Notes:

@wesyang

Yang on Longform

[02:00] "Paper Tigers" (New York • May 2011)

[10:00] "The Snakehead" (Patrick Radden Keefe • New Yorker • Apr 2006)

[24:00] "Eddie Huang Against the World" (New York Times Magazine • Feb 2015)

[24:00] "The Face of Seung-Hui Cho" (n+1 • Jun 2011)

[27:00] "The Life and Afterlife of Aaron Swartz" (New York • Feb 2013)

[32:00] "The True Import of Present Dialogue, Black vs. Negro (For Peppe, Who Will Ultimately Judge Our Efforts)" (Nikki Giovanni)

[42:00] "Longform Podcast #168: Ta-Nehisi Coates" (Nov 2015)

[47:00] "We Out Here" (Harper’s Magazine • Mar 2016)

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