author of LITTLE GODS (2020) and SELF-PORTRAIT WITH GHOST forthcoming summer 2022 @customhousebooks, rarely here
San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2009
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Meng Jin retweeted
"I come to fiction for the knife too—the clarity, that piercing knowledge."
In this collage of conversations—emails, texts, images, recordings—fiction writers @theshrutster & @jinittowinit discuss coming-of-age, the self, and keeping time in prose. ☎️💌📠
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Meng Jin retweeted
"When I feel caught like this, between the tidal tug of the times and the calls of my small but pressing life, reading a writer like Chang is what brings me true comfort." @jinittowinit on Chang's early essays @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/books/archiv…
Meng Jin retweeted
When everyday life “is a little out of order, out of order to a terrifying degree,” as the writer Eileen Chang put it, might our most minor details help bring us comfort? @jinittowinit explores the essayist’s pursuit of modest humanism during trying times: theatlantic.com/books/archiv…
Meng Jin retweeted
Tonight at 7PM! @rachelhengqp in conversation with @jinittowinit present THE GREAT RECLAMATION—". . . an epic love story set in a world at war within and without itself. Every page pulses with mud and magic."
Details: harvard.com/event/virtual_ev…
Meng Jin retweeted
Monday, join us for a virtual event with @rachelhengqp ft. THE GREAT RECLAMATION, a sweeping novel set in Singapore about one boy's unique gifts and the childhood love that will complicate the fate of his community and country. 7p online with @jinittowinit bit.ly/3G91lQ2
Meng Jin retweeted
The reading on 4/3 is virtual so you can join from anywhere! Huge thanks to @BooksandBooks, @HarvardBooks & @PoliticsProse for hosting, and @jinittowinit for moderating. Register here 👇
crowdcast.io/e/rachel-heng/r…
Meng Jin retweeted
Tonight at 7PM! @MaiNardone in conversation with
@jinittowinit present WELCOME ME TO THE KINGDOM—“Welcome Me to the Kingdom transports readers to a Thailand that is gritty and lush, spangled and crumbling, aching with grit and ecstasy."
Details: harvard.com/event/mai_nardon…
Um hello Boston people! This book is seriously amazing, like seriously, buy it now, and you should come to @HarvardBooks tonight 7pm to hear Mai read. Can’t wait to ask him about Elvis impersonators, death clubs, and using English as a weapon against your mom 😈
@randomhouse
Meng Jin retweeted
Thanks to @mrzinn for this write up in my dad’s hometown paper
Tomorrow I’ll be talking to @jinittowinit in person @HarvardBooks
bostonglobe.com/2023/02/16/a…
Meng Jin retweeted
And finally, our fiction authors in two parts: @chelseabieker, Lan Samantha Chang, @agreer, Tess Gunty, Emiko Jean, @jinittowinit, @mat_johnson, @peacedumpling, @FondaJLee, & Silvia Moreno-Garcia! (1/2)
Meng Jin retweeted
"The world we know is disappearing, perhaps forever, because of climate change, and ... one thing writers can do is to bear witness to the disappearing world, and disappearing ways of life, in language."
—@jinittowinit, interviewed by @porchlightbooks
porchlightbooks.com/blog/int…
Meng Jin retweeted
NEW! An interview with Meng Jin, author of SELF-PORTRAIT WITH GHOST.
Read it on the Porchlight blog → bit.ly/3bPmFhy
📖 SELF-PORTRAIT WITH GHOST
✍️ Meng Jin (@jinittowinit / @MarinerBooks)
📚Genre: #Fiction / #ShortStories
Meng Jin retweeted
Today @ 7pm! Taymour Soomro and @jinittowinit present OTHER NAMES FOR LOVE—"An exceptional novel. . ." and SELF-PORTRAIT WITH GHOST: Short Stories—"Alluring, mysterious, and crackling with sly intelligence."
Details: ow.ly/48l050KcLuY
Meng Jin retweeted
My interview with @jinittowinit about her new book, "Self-Portrait with Ghost" is up now! We about talk writing in the first person, stories speaking to us in ~these unprecedented times~ and more here:
bostonglobe.com/2022/08/09/a…
Meng Jin retweeted
In which @TeddyWayne1999 talks to Nick Drnaso, @jinittowinit, Adam Levin, @glossitis, and @drlwatkins about craft, hubris, and alternate paths. lithub.com/lit-hub-asks-5-wr…
Meng Jin retweeted
I went a little wild at @yuandmebooks! Could not resist books by @vanessa_hua @jinittowinit @staceyannchin @sayakamurata. Also needed the tote bag & “keep abortion safe/legal”sticker, of course.
ALT Pictured: forbidden city,self portrait with ghost, crossfire, and convenience store woman. Also, Yu & Me Books tote and postcard
ALT Meng Jin’s signatory on Portrait with Ghost
ALT Pro women/pro choice sticker and Safe/Legal abortion sticker