Yu's parents emigrated to the United States from Taiwan. He mentioned that besides drawing from his own life in writing Interior Chinatown, he also knew that he wanted to write about this certain experience of his parents as immigrants, during which time his kids were also growing up.[4]
He lives near Irvine, California with his wife, Michelle Jue and their two children, Sophia and Dylan.[9] His brother is the actor and TV writer Kelvin Yu.[10]
Writing
In 2007, Yu was selected by the National Book Foundation as one of its "5 Under 35", a program which highlights the work of the next generation of fiction writers by asking five previous National Book Award fiction Winners and Finalists to select one fiction writer under the age of 35 whose work they find particularly promising and exciting. Yu was selected for the honor by Richard Powers.[1]
In 2021, Yu established the Betty L. Yu and Jin C. Yu Creative Writing Prizes in collaboration with TaiwaneseAmerican.org.[11][12]
Short stories
His fiction was cited for special mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology XXVIII, specifically "Problems for Self-Study" published in the Harvard Review.[13]
In 2020, Yu released his second novel, Interior Chinatown, which uses the screenplay format to tell the tale of Willis Wu, the "Generic Asian Man" who is stuck playing "Background Oriental Male" and occasionally "Delivery Guy" in the fictional police procedural Black and White but who longs to be "Kung Fu Guy" on screens worldwide.[20] On January 27, 2020, Yu appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah to discuss the book, as well as the lack of on-screen representation for Asian Americans and the Asian American "model minority myth".[21] Yu further appeared on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon, January 25, 2020,[22] and on the Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour with Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf on February 3, 2020[23] to further discuss the novel.
In October 2020, Hulu announced that they would be adapting the novel into a TV series.[28] In 2022, details emerged that Taika Waititi would be an executive producer, Jimmy O. Yang would be starring as Willis Wu, and that Yu would be the showrunner.[29] The ten-episode series premiered on Hulu on November 19, 2024.[30]
Yu's non-fiction, essays, book reviews, journalism and other writing have also appeared online and in print in The Atlantic ( "The Pre-pandemic Universe Was the Fiction"), Slate (various reviews and articles on video games such as L.A. Noire and Portal 2), The Wall Street Journal ("Novelist Charles Yu on St. George California Reserve Agricole Rum"), Time ("What It's Like to Never Ever See Yourself on TV"), The Offing ("Thirteen Ways of Looking at 45" about the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump), The New York Times Style Magazine ("George R. R. Martin, Fantasy's Reigning King"), McSweeney's Internet Tendency ("What Kind of World Is This?"), The Morning News ("Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar", a review) and Polygon ("What future artificial intelligence will think of our puny human video games").
2010: Second Best Science Fiction Novel, from the John Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas for the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
"Bounty", Xprize ANA "Avatars.Inc" Anthology (eBook and also online), March 2020
"The Future of Work: Placebo", Wired, December 17, 2018
"America, The Ride", Lightspeed, November 2018, Issue 102 (anthologized in Resist: Tales from a Future Worth Fighting Against, edited by Hugh Howey, Gary Whitta & Christie Yant (Broad Reach Publishing 2018))
"NPC", Lightspeed, September 2018, Issue 100 (anthologized in Press Start to Play, edited by Daniel H. Wilson & John Joseph Adams (Vintage Books 2015))
"Bookkeeper, Narrator, Gunslinger", Lightspeed, April 2017, Issue 83 (anthologized in Dead Man's Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West, edited by John Joseph Adams (Titan Books, 2014))
"Subtext®: It Knows What You're Thinking Stop Thinking", Wired, December 13, 2016
"Fable", The New Yorker, May 23, 2016, Fiction (May 30, 2016 Issue)
"Re: re: Microwave in the break room doing weird things to fabric of spacetime", Motherboard, November 12, 2015
Non-fiction
Essays
"The Pre-pandemic Universe Was the Fiction", The Atlantic, April 15, 2020
"What It's Like to Never See Yourself on TV", TIME, January 21, 2020
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