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Maxine Hong Kingston on finding "a corner of one's own"

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Maxine Hong Kingston on finding "a corner of one's own"

“I can write anywhere—inside, outside, even at the beach.”

Mason Currey
Jun 22, 2020
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Welcome to the latest issue of Subtle Maneuvers. Previously, we looked at Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Mozart-centric daily routine.


Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)

Hua Hsu’s recent New Yorker profile of Maxine Hong Kingston inspired me to do a little digging into the 79-year-old author’s writing habits. What I found sounded . . . familiar. “I think my main problem is discipline,” Kingston told a reporter in 1977, a year after her breakthrough book, The Woman Warrior, was published.

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