Meng Jin

author of LITTLE GODS (2020) and SELF-PORTRAIT WITH GHOST forthcoming summer 2022 @customhousebooks, rarely here

[Meng Jin @jinittowinit]

some news 👻
preorder: https://t.co/Et3aBbIC5z
@MarinerBooks

[aaww-nyc.bsky.social @aaww]

"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. ☎️💌📠
https://t.co/QRUKOkLagF

[NYRB Classics @nyrbclassics]

"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 https://t.co/arvYYXKrtG

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

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: https://t.co/2JxPifRLep

[Harvard Book Store @HarvardBooks]

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: https://t.co/0Ofj1qJTaF

[Politics and Prose @PoliticsProse]

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 https://t.co/vkGAz3wHBE

[rachelhengqp @rachelhengqp]

@bookpassage @Kathryn_E_Ma 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 👇
https://t.co/H5pKy18YUH

[Harvard Book Store @HarvardBooks]

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: https://t.co/tEQN5pxH0S

[Meng Jin @jinittowinit]

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

[Mai Nardone @MaiNardone]

Feb 23 with @jinittowinit at Harvard Book Store

https://t.co/zQKVfH8Wsr

[Mai Nardone @MaiNardone]

Thanks to @mrzinn for this write up in my dad’s hometown paper

Tomorrow I’ll be talking to @jinittowinit in person @HarvardBooks

https://t.co/jGV8QDdy6E

[Mai Nardone @MaiNardone]

Feb 23 with @jinittowinit at Harvard Book Store

https://t.co/zQKVfH8Wsr

[Literary Arts @literaryarts]

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)

[Kundiman @kundimanforever]

"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

https://t.co/QGFHnWUnN0

[Porchlight Book Company 📚 @porchlightbooks]

NEW! An interview with Meng Jin, author of SELF-PORTRAIT WITH GHOST.

Read it on the Porchlight blog → https://t.co/cDJLI88zGe

📖 SELF-PORTRAIT WITH GHOST
✍️ Meng Jin (@jinittowinit / @MarinerBooks)
📚Genre: #Fiction / #ShortStories

[Harvard Book Store @HarvardBooks]

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: https://t.co/noNS87PePz

[Meng Jin @jinittowinit]

@kimlockhartga @almakatsu (me too) 🥰

[Serena Puang @SerenaPuang]

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:

https://t.co/TL2rqD0Bk9

[Literary Hub @lithub]

In which @TeddyWayne1999 talks to Nick Drnaso, @jinittowinit, Adam Levin, @glossitis, and @drlwatkins about craft, hubris, and alternate paths. https://t.co/gzkBoG9L08