Author Charles Yu: ‘Interior Chinatown’ is about roles and how we play them

By Anne Brice, Berkeley News| AUGUST 24, 2022

Charles Yu, discusses his 2020 book, Interior Chinatown, which goes inside the mind of a young Asian American man trying to make it in Hollywood. Incoming UC Berkeley students read the book over the summer as part of On The Same Page, a program from the College of Letters and Science, so that they’d have something in common to talk about throughout the year — socially, in classes and at events designed to explore the book’s themes.

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