Today's guest - Te-Ping Chen is a fiction writer & journalist whose debut collection of short stories, Land of Big Numbers, is available on Amazon now.

Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Granta, and Tin House. She is a Wall Street Journal correspondent in Philadelphia who was previously based in Beijing and Hong Kong. She has reported on rice cookers and wrongful convictions, get hung up on by Edward Snowden, and eaten more robot-cooked noodles than she can count.