Lim May Zhee talks with “But the Girl” author Jessica Zhan Mei Yu (Jessica Zhan Mei Yu) about what Sylvia Plath means to her and to her novel’s protagonist, a Plath scholar.
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Oh, I love Electric Literature. My interview with May Zhee Lim for Electric Literature about But The Girl and loving the literature that hates you is out now. 🥲

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I'm on the shortlist for The Age Book of the Year Award.
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Fascinating article by my Faculty of Arts colleague Jessica Zhan Mei Yu #TTPD

Taylor Swift's new era brings some new looks as well as some fresh literary influences 📚 Lecturer in Creative Writing, Jessica Zhan Mei Yu, dives in for VANITY FAIR.

Thanks, Brandon. 😇😇😇

Enthralled by “But the Girl” by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu

Today in Literary Hub, Jessica Zhan Mei Yu (author of BUT THE GIRL) writes in defense of food memory 🍛 lithub.com/in-defense-of-…

I wrote about how hard it is to write food in so-called immigrant fiction and yet how important for Literary Hub :)

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New review of But the Girl from Mascara Literary Review by Holden Walker. He said that my book should sit alongside Australian classics like Monkey Grip and Looking for Alibrandi 🥲.

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halfway through Jessica Zhan Mei Yu's 'But the Girl' and loving it.

I realised I hadn't yet posted a photo of the beautiful US edition of But the Girl published by Unnamed Press! So, here it is with its equally lovely siblings. The Australian edition by Penguin Books Aus is on the left, the British edition by Jonathan Cape is on the right. :) :)

!!! omg my book is on the display table at a bookstore in New York (I think haha)...thanks Brandon 🥲.

Thanks to Our Culture magazine for interviewing me about But the Girl and immigrant families and Olivia Rodrigo 💜 as part of their 'Author Spotlight' series. Thanks also to Sam for your thoughtful questions :).

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Anne Anlin Cheng's gorgeous poem written to accompany the cover of Ornamentalism, for #Visualities Modernism/modernity: '(Did you ever get the idea / standing / in a room full of beautiful things / meant to enhance you / that you were / the unwanted excess?)' modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/j…

Publishing today in the US with Unnamed Press!

Hope the sun is shining on her over there because it is not managing it here.

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