What I’m Working On

My current book project is a little hard to explain, but I’ll try:

I translated a seventeenth-century Chinese text, a detailed account of a tedious political imbroglio, into English.I extracted an intriguing subplot concerning a despicable family, resulting in a snappy 6000-word text.I transplanted the setting to contemporary Baltimore. My impulse was threefold:Chinese settings seem to discourage would-be readers, and Baltimore may prove more accessible;Chinese names are especially off-put...