Karen Gu
Karen Gu writes for The Believer, The Margins, and McSweeney's Quarterly. She is a Kundiman Fellow and a 2018 Jack Jones Retreat Yi Dae Up Fellow.
Scott Brown takes photos of parking lots and picturesques both with care and attention. This book is a celebration of this kind of looking, one that invites you to sit down and look closely at the everyday around you, with fresh eyes.
This graphic novel immerses the reader into a landscape of dreams, humming with vivid colors and snippets of sound. It asks us to take note of how we access our own memories through sounds and offers us the possibility of a loving departure from the past.
Delporte looks at herself from the panoramic distance of time and perspective, to witness her life through the eyes of her new self and identity. It opens with a desire to “overwrite” the man-made images of lesbians; the rest of the book shows her reckoning with the misogynistic culture that shaped her and her embodied experience.
This collection of personal stories creates a collaged family album of people living in between names, places, cultures, languages, and identities. Borrowing its title from the automated language of word processor spell checks and iMessage autocorrects, it creates a literal and material space for Asian names recognized as errors on digital interfaces.
Where her films run through a rapid series of objects and references unattached to their sources, this monograph meticulously annotates the film scripts. Mapped out and diagrammed, the scripts expand the films like an accordion folder, revealing the research archive behind the screen.
