A MacDowell Colony and Hawthornden Castle Fellow, Leland Cheuk is the author of the story collection Letters From Dinosaurs (2016) and the novel The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong (2015), which was also published in translation in China (2018).His newest novel is No Good Very Bad Asian.
Cheuk lives in Brooklyn and teaches at the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute.
At Electric Lit he tagged seven standup comedy memoirs that will make you laugh and cry. including:
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets and Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali WongRead about the other entries on the list.
“Don’t perform in heels. It’s not worth your calves looking 20% better.”
This one’s just came out and like my novel, also happens to be framed as a series of scandalous letters of advice to the comedian’s daughters. Though we’re complete strangers, I swear she stole my idea! When I was doing standup, I would treat myself by going to Comedy Cellar and seeing the soon-to-be stars and Ali Wong was one of them, and believe it or not, she was even raunchier back then.
--Marshal Zeringue
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