Xu Xi
Xu Xi is a writer living between New York and Hong Kong. While at the Kerouac House, she hopes to complete (or substantially improve) a novel-in-progress, The Habit of a Foreign Sky.
She is the author of two novels, Hong Kong Rose and ChineseWalls and a fiction collection Daughters of Hui, which was named a 1996 "best book" by Asiaweek magazine. Her stories, essays and book reviews have been published and broadcast internationally.
The Unwalled City, her most recently completed novel, will be published in 2001 by Chameleon Press, to be followed by a fiction collection History's Fiction (Stories from the City of Hong Kong).
Born in a snake year, she is a native of Hong Kong from a Chinese-Indonesian family and has been a resident of that city, intermittently, for some thirty years. She holds a MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a BA in English from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh.
At the end of 1997, after some 18 years as a marketing professional, she quit the corporate world to write, and live, full time.
Listening to Jack (1)
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006hey Jack Kerouac, what AM I doing here? I’ve hunted in the corners of this house, seeking your ghost amid the dust mopped and the food prepared. you told “Jerce” (1) you found peace in Orlando, and after my first week here - where the temperature plummeted to an all-time low, and life was about scrambling to get …
Listening to Jack (2)
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006so it’s that time when evening breezes caress, and whip, trees on a Sunday that has gotten progressively chillier as the hours pass as I’m cruising on this road with you, J.K., saying, is this why I’m here, for the SANITY OF SURRENDER?
the work flows, with a manic energy that doesn’t stop, in the morning in the afternoon in the evening all night long until day …
Listening to Jack (3)
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006beat, beaten, arise with dazzled eyes on the wings of phoenix. beat, beaten by a man, men, this gender battle because no man would be beaten by a woman, not even you. but beat is not beaten IS movement forward hear your house that roars in minnie’s kingdom.
beat generation. the only war that matters is the war against the imagination. diane di prima, woman of the.
beat is time, time, time, and there …
Listening to Jack (4)
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006Great News From a Kerouac Project Alumni
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006October 30, 2002
Hi everyone — Great news.
The VOA (Voice of America) is coming to New York next week to film a 1/2 hour TV profile on me and my life as a writer for broadcast in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. That’s the good news.
BUT — and this is truly the height of cool — I’m doing a reading while the VOA’s here at the Cornelia Street Cafe in …
