We see Willis grow up and find success, struggling with the roles he must play, both on and off-screen.Ĭoincidentally, or maybe not, Yu has been writing for television for several years now his credits include Westworld, Legion, and the cult favorite Lodge 49. He lives with his family and friends in a cheap hotel above a Chinese restaurant, where people from a variety of nations and cultures are packed and labeled Asian. His goal is to work his way up from small roles, say, the corpse in a cop show that’s a lot like Law & Order, to a hero, Kung Fu Guy.
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens are at 1151 Oxford Road in San Marino.That’s where the main character, Willis Wu, gets his designation Generic Asian Man. You can choose to attend either of two in-person sessions Wednesday at Rothenberg Hall: 3 to 4 p.m., and 7 to 8 p.m. He also serves on the board of the Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena.Īttendees at the event on Wednesday will be given the opportunity to submit questions for Charles Yu during event registration. Holding a bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University, Li was elected to serve on The Huntington’s Board of Governors in 2010 and to the Board of Trustees in 2019. He has served as a vice chairman of the Vienna-based International Press Institute and on the board of directors of Inside Climate News, which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. He had also been the paper’s foreign editor, promoted for his work directing the paper’s coverage of the 1991-1992 Gulf War. Li retired from full-time journalism as an assistant managing editor of the Los Angeles Times in 2007 after 23 years there. Yu Writing Prizes in honor of his parents. Together with a web portal highlighting many of the interesting people, events and organizations that make up Taiwanese America, he established the Betty L. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired, among other publications. Yu has also written for television shows on FX and AMC.
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He received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award and was nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards for his work on the HBO series “Westworld.” dialogues about race and identity, among others.įounders’ Day is observed annually at The Huntington in honor of Henry and Arabella Huntington’s roles in envisioning and establishing the institution.Ĭharles Yu is the author of four books, including “Interior Chinatown,” winner of the 2020 National Book Award for fiction, and the novel “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe,” a New York Times notable book and a Time magazine best book of the year. Li on The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens’ Founders Day Lecture this Wednesday, March 2, to discuss Yu’s experiences writing in multiple genres, the role of fiction in constructing identity, and current U.S. Acclaimed writer Charles Yu will be joining Huntington Trustee Simon K.C.
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