• XU XI •
author - editor - teacher



stories & essays


jazz fiction


is a page from some other kind of "book" which first emerged at the Jack Kerouac Project of Orlando, Florida where Xu Xi was the David Amram writer-in-residence.

photo by Fellow Mui

publications

forthcoming


"Jazz Wife" (story) Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz Poetry & Literature, Pennsylvania, Summer 2008.

"The Wang Candidate" (story) Asia Literary Review, Hong Kong, June 2008.

"Letter from Vermont" (travel essay) Muse, Hong Kong, May 2008.

"To Body To Chicken" (story) Silk Road, Pacific University, Oregon, Spring 2008.

"Playing the Changes" (cnf writing exercise) NOW WRITE! ed. Sherry Ellis, Tarcher/Penguin.

"Multi Culti Literati" (essay) BRINGING THE BONES TO LIFE ed. David Jauss, anthology of craft essays by Vermont College faculty 1981 to 2006, Writers Digest Books.

"Global English in Contemporary Asian Fiction (essay) IMAGINING GLOBALIZATION ed. Ho Hon Leung, Palgrave Macmillan.

"At 'Home' in a Globalized Life" (essay) ASIA LITERARY REVIEW, 2008.

new & recent (partial)


"Letter from Kuala Lumpur" Muse Magazine, Hong Kong, March 2008.

"Lady Day" (3-part serialized long story), Muse, Hong Kong, Dec 2007- Feb 2008 (in English & Chinese, parallel text)

“Famine” (story translation), N Exposant Nouvelle, University of Quebec, Canada, Issue #1.

"Available" (story), Saranac Review, New York, Fall 2007.

"Eternal Endings" (essay) First City Magazine, New Delhi, Jan/Feb 2007

"Algebra of Fiction" (essay) The Writers Chronicle, Fairfax, VA February 2007. (see link above)

"Asian Heroes: Maxine Hong Kingston" (article) TIME Asia, November 13, 2006. (see link above)

“The Long March” (essay) Post Road Magazine, Winter, 2006.

“Crying with Audrey Hepburn” Asia Literary Review, Hong Kong, Fall 2006.

"Famine" (story) O. HENRY PRIZE STORIES 2006, ed. Laura Furman, Anchor Books, May 2006.

"Crying with Audrey Hepburn" (story) MANHATTAN NOIR, ed. Lawrence Block, Akashic Press, New York, Spring 2006.

“Personal Feelings” (essay) South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, February 5, 2006.




"Lost in the Amazon" (essay) The Author, New Zealand, December 2005.

"Finding my English" (essay) HKID Anthology, Haven Books, Hong Kong, 2005.

Chapter 1 of HABIT OF A FOREIGN SKY (novel excerpt), American Letters & Commentary, New York, Issue No. 17, Fall 2005.

"A Short History of Our Shores" (essay) DIVIDE, University of Colorado at Boulder, Fall 2005 (Art & Politics issue - see link above)

"Godspeed" (essay) SARANAC REVIEW, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, Fall 2005

"My Island Home" (essay) South China Morning Post, July 24, 2005 on the surprising literary commonalities between St. Martin and Hong Kong.

"Hung Your Heads" (essay) South China Morning Post, February 20, 2005 (adapted from a paper presented at the University of Hong Kong English Department's Seminar Series "Why Hong Kong Can't Write or The William Hung Theory of Writing & Literature with Apologies to J.M. Coetzee)

Encyclopedia of Post Colonial Literature, 2nd ed., Routledge, UK, February, 2005. Hong Kong Regional Editor



books

(1) Novel
The Unwalled City (2001)
An insider's look at contemporary Hong Kong
Hong Kong Rose (1997) 2nd edition, 2004
Love, and lust, unrequited and transformed in two of the world's great cities
(2) Collection
Overleaf Hong Kong (2004)
Stories & Essays of the Chinese, Overseas
History's Fiction (2001) 2nd edition, 2005
Stories from the City of Hong Kong
(3) Compendium
(4) Anthology
CITY VOICES (2003)
Hong Kong Writing in English 1945 - Present
Anthology
City Stage (2005)
Hong Kong Playwriting in English


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