![]() ![]() “Ever since you were a boy, you’ve dreamt of being Kung Fu Guy,” the novel begins. The role Willis is hoping to transcend, specifically, is that of Generic Asian Man. Nor does Willis Wu, aspiring actor and protagonist of Yu’s fourth book, this week’s Interior Chinatown. But despite his love for science fiction in all of its forms (his first book was the 2006 short-story collection Third Class Superhero), he doesn’t want to get stuck in any one role or mode or, uh, tense. Charles Yu is a visionary novelist, adventurous TV writer (from Westworld to Legion to Lodge 49), and unofficial time-travel expert: His first acclaimed novel, 2010’s flamboyant and tender How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, starred a flustered repairman in a TM-31 Recreational Time Travel Device whose Tense Operator was usually stuck in Present-Indefinite. ![]()
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