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MONGREL INTERNATIONAL
Imprint for new editions of books by Xu Xi
Bidding a wistful farewell to Marshall Moore and Signal 8 Press. Over two decades earlier, Signal 8 offered to publish my titles in print as E Books. At the time, all my books were only in paper or hardback, and none of the publishers were interested in E Books. Signal 8 became my E Book publisher, and over the years, they converted several of my titles to E Books. Also, they published three new story/essay collections, and they've been a wonderful publisher to work with. So it's sad to lose them, but their professionalism has made the transition much easier.
In 2025, Mongrel International will be the imprint for new editions of some titles by Xu Xi, both as E Books and POD. The first two titles to be released will be 2nd edition E Books of the novel Chinese Walls (1994) and Daughters of Hui (1996), a novella and three stories.
Honorary DFA degree award
On December 14, 2024, Xu Xi officially received her honorary doctorate degree (DFA - Doctorate of Fine Arts) awarded by her undergraduate alma mater, the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Here is the link to watch a recording of her remarks at the winter commencement ceremony (available soon).
Xu's novel manuscript The Milton Man selected as a finalist for FC2's 2024 Catherine Doctorow fiction prize
”City Notes with iPhone” just published in Press II Pause, Volume 9: two ”snapshots” in images and prose of a longview take on transnational living read at this link
Watch Xu on Day 1 (June 7, 2023) of the symposium speak on “The Problem of English in Contemporary Literature in the Fora of Criticism” - published paper from the symposium forthcoming in 2024.
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Recent podcast interview in “The Cultural Life of the Nobel Prize in Literature” series.
Recent New Work
The Art and Craft of Asian Stories: A Writer's Guide and Anthology by Robin Hemley & Xu Xi
”Fiction Remix” a chapter from her memoir-in-progress The Work Book, appears in the latest issue of New England Review (Vol 43.1). An excerpt was featured at LitHub, click here to read “Xu Xi on Living the Transnational Life”
Teaching Creative Writing in Asia, ed. Darryl Whetter includes Xu's essay ”Compromised Tongues: That Wrong Language for the Creative Writing We Teach in Asia”
A recent issue of West Trestle Review republishes Xu's 2001 story “Democracy” that is surprisingly prescient for the state of democracy in the world today.
“2016: The Political Year” new “shaggy fiction”chapter from a novel-in-progress Memories of You named a Glimmer Train finalist, July 8, 2017
“The Writing Race” Asian American Literary Review essay “Speak No Evil” response to MFA vs. POC, Jan 11, 2015
An essay reflecting on Hong Kong today "永久性香港 Forever This Hong Kong" at First Person with Michael Judge
All About Skin
Edited by Jina Ortiz & Rochelle Spencer, with a foreword by Helena Maria Viramontes, this exciting new anthology is, according to Pulitzer fiction author Junot Diaz, "electrifying and absolutely necessary." Xu’s work is the title story and the volume features twenty-seven stories by women of color. Published in November, 2014 by the University of Wisconsin press.
All About Skin was named a Ms. Magazine 2014 must-read feminist book of the year.
That Lit, Lit Life (w/global characteristics)