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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 9d

🎉Thrilled to announce we'll publish debut novel LESSONS IN ATTENTION by @jiminkanggg.bsky.social -- Fall 2026!

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Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · 9d

I'm thrilled to share that my debut novel, Lessons in Attention, will be out with @tinhouse.bsky.social in 2026! A testament to faith, friendship, and how people change us, it follows a series of friends as they attempt to reach one another across Oxford, Oslo, Brazil. Can't wait to share it 🤗

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Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · 9d

The book has mesmerized me each time I've read it, and you captured Baldwin's particular magic so well— thank you for writing it, and for your writing in general! 😊

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Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · 14d

“What the sentence says is that David and Giovanni’s romance will not last; but that meaning is scored to a music of rapture.” Amazed by @garthgreenwell.bsky.social's take on affirming literature: that affirmation comes as much from style—an author's care—as the subject harpers.org/archive/2025...

Enamored of the Abyss, by Garth Greenwell

On the place of affirmation in art

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Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · 22d

Officially arrived at Stanford, aka home for the foreseeable future! This England transplant is yet to be sick of the sun… does one ever tire of it? 🌞

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Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · Sep 8

A new short story joins the Oxonian Review's 'To Write Hong Kong' column—steeped in the ambivalence of freelancing and the state of being in between: www.oxonianreview.com/articles/the...

The Freelancer

A short story by Emily Wong.

www.oxonianreview.com

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Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · Sep 8

This sounds amazing, Jeff! Any chance the roundtable will be livestreamed / made available online?

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Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · Jul 28

For @pawprinceton.bsky.social, I wrote a guide for the perfect day in my favorite city (and current home): Oxford! Find here an itinerary full of good food and sunshine-y spots, weather permitting... paw.princeton.edu/article/tour...

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Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · Jun 23

A digital souvenir from an incredible conference in Oxford! (Plus my reflection on how creative non-fiction resembles my understanding of Quaker worship— how, at the heart of an assembly of distinct people and thoughts, we come to reach a universal middle that houses the stories we want to tell.)

Creative Critical @creativecritical.bsky.social · Jun 20

New on our website: What Is Creative Criticism? A Field Report on a Colloquium at Oxford, hosted by Joe Moshenska and Iris Pearson and with a keynote by Mary Capello.

What is Creative Criticism? - A Field Report on a Colloquium: Oxford, June 2024 - Creative-Critical

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Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · Apr 24

Last year I often found myself at a crossroads, thinking: can the events that happen to us be explained by 'divine fate', or is everything totally random? The question made its way into this story, set in Berlin & published this month in La Piccioletta Barca: www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/where-...

La Piccioletta Barca | Where You Need to Go - by Jimin Kang

D. had sensed that the monk would talk to her even before he approached. She couldn’t explain why. The encounter ...

www.picciolettabarca.com

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Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · Apr 1

Tried my hand at writing a short short— a somewhat magical/mystical story about the thin border between rootedness and rootlessness, in The Hong Konger: hongkonger.world/2025/02/28/h...

‘Home is Where the Heart Used to Be’, a short story by Jimin Kang | The Hong Konger

In this flash fiction, the writer explores what it means to belong, and to try to leave.

hongkonger.world

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Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · Mar 30

For @pawprinceton.bsky.social, I looked back on 20 years of Princeton’s alumni educational travel program— and got a glimpse of it myself in Buenos Aires 🇦🇷
paw.princeton.edu/article/all-...

All Aboard

Princeton Journeys, in its 21st year, is looking to attract younger alumni on its excursions, including a recent trip to Argentina

paw.princeton.edu

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Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · Mar 29

Honored to have taken part in Oxford Writers Wheel (by @fusionartsox.bsky.social) as a fiction mentor— really moved to see project testimonials live! fusion-arts.org/projects/oxf...

Big thanks to @jennywcreative.bsky.social for the chance to teach creative writing in one of the homes we share 📚✍️

Oxford Writers Wheel | Fusion Arts

Creative writing workshops for young people in Oxfordshire and beyond.

fusion-arts.org

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Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · Mar 26

'We know all the reasons and more why the writing life isn’t worth it, and clearly none of them really matter because we still write.' Am feeling this especially in relation to the political possibilities of writing— what do words change? How and when do they matter? thepointmag.com/criticism/ca...

Careerism | The Point Magazine

Listen to an audio version of this essay here. An acquaintance of mine, a comedy writer, once admitted to feeling disappointed that she hadn’t won […]

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Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · Mar 26

Finally returned to Oxford to find that spring has sprung! Hoping that post-6pm sunsets and fresh swathes of crocuses are signs of good things to come 🌼

Crocuses growing in Oxford under a blue sky.

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Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · Mar 21

In Macau this weekend learning more about the revitalisation of Macanese patuá, which has fewer than 1000 speakers left worldwide— and I am, as ever, in admiration of the way in which the city makes its multilingualism known! 🇲🇴

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Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · Mar 18

“But if, at the same time, someone else succeeded in capturing his conscience, then man might even spurn Your bread and follow the one who ensnared his conscience… For the mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” (trans. Andrew R. MacAndrew)

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Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · Mar 18

Day 13: read the chapter on ‘The Grand Inquisitor’. How chillingly it speaks to the current moment— especially re: the heaviness of exercising our conscience + how easy it is to be (mis)led to compromise it for “the assurance of daily bread.”

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Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · Mar 7

For #Lent this year I’ll be spending 40 days reading Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’—trying to build the habit of daily reading & tackling a book I’ve been meaning to read for a long time!

(This morning’s reading location: Caffe Trieste in San Francisco…)

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Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · Feb 21

I interviewed translators, publishers, and tech experts on AI's impact on literary translation for @pw.org, and what we stand to lose of the 'human and humane' in the literary process: www.pw.org/content/ai_t..., featuring @deepvellum.bsky.social, @societyofauthors.bsky.social & others!

AI Threatens Literary Translation

In response to publishers turning to artificial intelligence as a tool to expedite or replace the work of human translators, publishers and translators question whether machine-led translation can tru...

www.pw.org

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · Feb 19

Read our March/April 2025 issue, which includes a feature on Karen Russell’s second novel, The Antidote (Knopf); a look at road trips, retreats, and residencies to take your creative practice off the beaten path; Jimin Kang’s take on AI-generated literary translation; and more! at.pw.org/MarApr2025

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Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · Feb 19

From @mmschwartz.bsky.social: "...the closeness we have with a language is not just a product of our ability to use it but of other emotional valences as well. If language is a form of identity, it is one that may be changed by circumstance or even by force of will." www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/m...

Can You Lose Your Native Tongue?

After moving abroad, I found my English slowly eroding. It turns out our first languages aren’t as embedded as we think.

www.nytimes.com

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · Feb 17

Wherever possible please buy your books directly from authors and/or publishers. Even ebooks (then Amazon can't delete them either). We make a better cut and you get the same thing or better, plus Bezos and ilk don't get richer. Win win win.

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Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · Feb 17

Beautiful read about Seamus Heaney and the power of literature to shape a place, its people, its history, and how words give shape to our lives when the facts of our politics don't "fit into a neat rubric" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment

What Seamus Heaney gave me

www.theatlantic.com

Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · Feb 10

...From his latest on the legacy of Alice Munro: 'More subtly, it shows how an artistic sensibility, a disposition to see other people as grist for transformation, can give rise to a frigid disengagement.' He manages the opposite! www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/m...

What Alice Munro Knew

The Nobel-winning author’s husband was a pedophile who targeted her daughter and other children. Why did she stay silent?

www.nytimes.com