You’ll Be Very Happy, But Very Poor (feat. Alexander Chee, Writer)
Feeling Asian
Youngmi Mayer & Brian Park
4.9 • 941 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Alexander Chee is most recently the author of the essay collection How To Write An Autobiographical Novel and professor at Dartmouth College. He is also the first guest to subscribe to our Patreon on air lol! Alexander joins us to discuss his relationship to his biracial identity and recount stories of his family’s unique background. He also shares helpful advice for writers and people pursuing creative fields. Run to your nearest bookstore and buy all of his books and follow him on twitter @alexanderchee. Also be sure to like, subscribe and Patreon us!
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| 0:00.0 | How are you feeling? |
| 0:04.0 | I'm feeling Asia. Welcome to Feeling Asia and a podcast where two Asians talk about their feelings. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm Young Me Mayor. |
| 0:19.7 | And I'm Brian Park. |
| 0:21.2 | And we have such an amazing guest today I'm really excited |
| 0:27.0 | Oh this is a really good before all of our guests are wonderful actually I was |
| 0:31.7 | lying I've never been excited for any guess. |
| 0:34.0 | Sorry if you're listening. |
| 0:37.0 | I was faking it. |
| 0:38.0 | But I'm actually excited. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm just kidding. |
| 0:42.0 | I love all our guests and but however before we |
| 0:46.1 | introduce our wonderful wonderful guest this week we got to dive into our new |
| 0:50.8 | Patreon shoutouts format yeah our new Patreon shoutouts. |
| 0:52.8 | Format, yeah. |
| 0:53.8 | Our new format. |
| 0:54.8 | So if you're just joining us, a quick update, |
| 0:57.0 | Youngme and I offer weekly Patreon episodes now. |
| 1:00.0 | If you want to check those out, you can do so at Patreon. |
| 1:02.3 | Com slash Feeling Asian and because our patreon shout-ups we're taking a little bit too |
| 1:06.7 | long we want to get to the good stuff right away |
| 1:10.0 | uh... we're just gonna do ten quick shout-outs with the positive affirmation. |
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