The Asian Bookshelf discusses Elaine Chiew’s The Light Between Us (Neem Tree Press 2024).
Presenter Devika Misra, and writer, Jon Gresham, talk to Elaine about her debut novel, The Light Between Us,the power and artifice of images, photography in the early twentieth century compared to now, writing different time periods and a non-western centered novel, and her path to publication.
Books mentioned
Elaine Chiew, The Light Between Us (Neem Tree Press 2024)
“Life is a movie. Death is a photograph” from Susan Sontag, The Benefactor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1963, Penguin 2009). See also On Photography (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1977, Penguin Modern Classics 2008)
F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (Scribner 1925)
Sarah Churchwell, Careless People (Virago 2014)
Kevin Kwan, Crazy Rich Asians (Doubleday 2013)
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife (MacAdam/Cage 2003)
Other links
Bruce Hung at IMDb
Dai Xiangyu at IMDb
Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore at LaSalle College of the Arts
The Lake House (Warner Bros 2006)
On Speculative Fiction in Southeast Asia read this article Defying Classification: An Introduction to Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction by Victor Fernando R Ocampo in Lithub, April 2022
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