"Interior Chinatown" Just Became a Very Weird TV Show (with Charles Yu)

Our Opinions Are Correct by Annalee Newitz

Mar 6, 202545:18TV & Film

In his award-winning novel Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu took a scalpel to television's tropes and stereotypes. Now he explains to us how he managed to turn that book into a brilliant, challenging TV show. Also, contrib...

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