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Freelance writer based in Chicago — interested in culture and politics, especially feminism and Asian American identity, public health!

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Monetizing Vulnerability

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By Anson Tong
| Mental Hellth
Anson Tong (she/her) is a writer, photographer, and behavioral scientist based in Chicago. Fortesa Latifi is a journalist reporting on influencer parents and their children. She is the author of Like, Follow, Subscribe: Influencer Kids and the Cost of a Childhood Online. Family influencers are now a multi-billion dollar industry largely built on voyeurism and selling consumer goods.
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An Interview with Lisa Lee

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By Anson Tong
| Washington Independent Review of Books Verified
In Lisa Lee’s American Han, everybody in the Kim family is in a personal crisis. Protagonist Jane is skipping law-school classes; her father is abruptly embarking on a new career; her mother is shopping for houses she can’t afford; and her brother’s rigidity and rage have intensified since he ended his professional tennis career and became a cop. In this blunt and intelligent debut novel, everyone pays a different, costly price in pursuit of the American Dream.
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Interstitial Memory in Yasmina Din Madden's "You Know Nothing"

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By Anson Tong
| Chicago Review of Books Verified
Yasmina Din Madden’s debut short story collection, You Know Nothing, alternates between painfully realistic and spectacularly strange, frequently dragging the reader into a vivid, intriguing new story only to boot them out soon after. Through the 41 stories in this collection, the author takes serious interest in women and their bodies, the many iterations of motherhood within the same life and across different ones, mixed-race Asian identity, and shapeshifting grief.
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