Hua Hsu

Bio

Hua Hsu is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the director of Vassar College’s American Studies program. Hsu’s writing on pop culture and sports has appeared in magazines like Artforum, Vibe, The Wire, Grantland, Slate and The Atlantic. He’s also part of the executive board of the Asian American Writer’s Workshop. His first book, A Floating Chinaman – Fantasy and Failure Across The Pacific, was published in 2016, and shone a light on the life of immigrant writer H.T. Tsiang and the curiously competitive scene of U.S.-American China experts in the interwar years. In this conversation, Hsu opens up about the one story he’s been struggling to write for twenty years, the responsibilities that come with having a higher profile, and the things he learned from DIY-zine culture.