Never Too Soon: A Conversation with Leland Cheuk

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/never-too-soon-a-conversation-with-leland-cheuk/

Relationship is Understanding

“Tao of Jeet Kune Do: New Expanded Edition” by Bruce Lee –

“Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself—to be is to be related.”

Dog’s Heart is Alive

“Все испытал, с судьбой своей мирюсь и, если плачу сейчас, то только от физической боли и холода, потому что дух мой еще не угас… Живуч собачий дух.”

Go Home and Keep Going

“In the end, the girl’s scream — a fearful sound — turning into innocuous laughter can resemble the pathos of an immigrant’s linguistic misapprehension turning into bathos when apprehension comes, the drama and tension lost in mistranslation and released like ‘an arrow that landed between us, narrowly missing its mark.'” This is from my review of David Bezmozgis’ Immigrant City.