Yu-Mei

Writer, plant admirer, bookseller (she/her). Singaporean living in Boston. Mastodon:

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Decolonizing #Thanksgiving https://t.co/OpElsTyHiA

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Things I do for my novel that you otherwise wouldn’t catch me doing https://t.co/xYdsR0C9N1

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Dipping my toes into Mastodon. So far I have written an intro post and told you what I’m having for dinner. Just like the old days! https://t.co/R4u25yPatE

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The Pushcart Prize-nominated story is “A Reliable Woman,” which was published in the fiftieth anniversary volume of the Mississippi Review earlier this year. The story is about a Vietnamese woman who lives in Singapore with her Chinese-Singaporean husband and their two children.

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Gobsmacked. Thank you @MissReviewMag for the love! 🫶🏽 And congrats to my fellow nominees!

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congratulations to our 2022 pushcart nominees! 🎊 @LA_Johnson_ @natalieshapero @bubblevicious @alisonwpowell @emilypittinos

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Marshall's daughter (not identified by name in the previous link) explains the phrase "Wacko the ducks!" as meaning "How absolutely fantastic!" and adds, "I think it's a very interesting phrase and ought to be returned to the language, really." Endorsed!

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More than 15 years ago, I wrote a short blog post about "Wacko the ducks," a pet phrase of Singapore's former Chief Minister David Marshall, which I stumbled across while listening to his oral history recordings at the National Archives of Singapore https://t.co/MSaLN5vdua

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Also came across this lovely oral history snippet contributed by one of Marshall's daughters (not sure if it's the same one) describing her father's penchant for the word https://t.co/6NYfZ8Wc54

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Typo of the day: cathedrawl

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Typo of the day: Singapore friend noodles. #amwriting

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When you realise that the magnificent dramatic set piece at the midpoint of your novel draft has to be entirely rewritten because reasons. #amwriting

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Typo of the day: forewarm

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And here's the video of the festival closing address by @cheriangeorge, which I moderated https://t.co/sLVUl7msFV

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TY @SGUnbound1 for the video of my panel at the Singapore Literature Festival in New York: "Archipelagic Constellations", abt writing the history of South Asian migration to Guyana, Trinidad & Singapore, with the inspiring Gaiutra Bahadur & @KrystalASital https://t.co/sOHYNJAwJp

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To be fair, I mostly reflect on my distance from the subject and my current preoccupations as a fiction writer. 🙃

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When your fingers automagically type "cinta" instead of "contain".

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The event will be the first stop on @JeremyTiang ’s New England book tour for “Cocoon”.

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Recent reads on my New York trip + upcoming event in Boston with @JeremyTiang: https://t.co/aQegioD2mZ

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I’ll be in conversation with @JeremyTiang to celebrate the launch of his latest translation, “Cocoon” by Zhang Yueran, at @papercutsjp in Boston, Tuesday, October 18, 6 pm.