On Thursday morning, Emma Straub moderated a keynote at ABA Snow Days titled “Storytelling in the Cultural Moment.” The talk featured Jennifer Egan, Celeste Ng, and Kali Fajardo-Anstine speaking mostly about their forthcoming novels, but also addressing what it’s like to be a novelist in an era of social upheaval and global pandemic. Asked how the current moment contributed to her new book, Our Missing Hearts, Ng said the recent attacks on Asian Americans “became a sort of seed crystal around which the rest of the book started to focus.” She said, “It felt like something that I needed to […]