Dragon Hoops: Gene Luen Yang Gives a Slam Dunk of an Interview

In December of 2019 I received a tiny basketball in the mail. It didn’t travel alone. In its box was an equally adorable little hoop and, most exciting of all, a copy of former National Ambassador of Children’s Literature Gene Luen Yang’s latest YA comic, Dragon Hoops. The little hoop attached to the box, allowing for easy play. I am not the most athletically inclined person, though, and I had to wonder how it happened that Mr. Yang had turned his sights to a sport, of all incredible things,...