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Xujun Eberlein is the author of the award-winning story collection Apologies Forthcoming . An immigrant living in the Boston area, she is also a widely published essayist. One of her latest essays, "Ms. Daylily," has been selected for The Best American Essays 2023 by Vivian Gornick and Robert Atwan.

Xujun's writing has appeared in many magazines in the United States, as well as in Canada, England, Kenya, and Hong Kong. Her literary awards include The Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction, artist fellowship in fiction/creative nonfiction from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the VCCA’s Goldfarb Non-fiction Fellowship, first prize of the Ledge Fiction Award, second prize of Literal Latte's Essay Awards, honorable mention from Dana Award in t ...more

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Aren’t We All Accomplices?

In May 2012, a stranger contacted me through my website. A professor of cultural psychology at Hampshire College, Q.M. Zhang was interested in talking about Chongqing, the city I grew up in. What triggered her request for a meeting, apparently, was my article titled “Another Kind of American History in Chongqing,” which had appeared on the Atlantic website the previous year. She was writing a memo Read more of this blog post »

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	The Best American Essays 2023 by Vivian Gornick (Compiler), Robert Atwan, Ciara Alfaro 3.92 avg rating — 416 ratings — published 2023 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Chinese Characters: Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land by Angilee Shah (Editor), Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom (Editor), Pankaj Mishra (Foreword) 4.17 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	China Stories (Los Angeles Review of Books - Digital Editions, Issue #10) by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom (Editor), Helen Gao, Alec Ash (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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message 3: by Beth

Jul 24, 2008 08:00AM

Thanks for the friendship add, Xujun! I'll be blogging about the second book in my gift basket mystery series, TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET, next spring. We'll have to compare notes on book blogs!

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message 2: by Daniel

Feb 14, 2008 01:29PM

Xujun, I've put your book APOLOGIES FORTHCOMING on my to-read list.

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Jan 29, 2008 07:58PM

Hi Xujun,

Congratulations on the forthcoming release of your story collection. The title is intriguing and I will be anxious to read your book!

--John

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