Jimin Kang
@jiminkanggg.bsky.social
Now: PhD Comp Lit at Stanford. Prev: geography & comp lit at Oxford, Princeton ('21), Reuters in 🇧🇷. Born 🇰🇷 raised 🇭🇰. https://www.jimin-kang.com/
New in The Oxonian Review's 'To Write HK': @arghpoetica.bsky.social's translation of Tang Siu Wa's 'Swan Song' (驪歌): an elegant poem on translational solidarity set against backdrop of the 2006 anti-WTO protest.
'We have never arrived / so we will never leave' www.oxonianreview.com/articles/swa...
'We have never arrived / so we will never leave' www.oxonianreview.com/articles/swa...
Swan Song
A translation of Tang Siu Wa's 'Swan Song', translated by Michelle Chan Schmidt.
www.oxonianreview.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
New in The Oxonian Review's 'To Write HK': @arghpoetica.bsky.social's translation of Tang Siu Wa's 'Swan Song' (驪歌): an elegant poem on translational solidarity set against backdrop of the 2006 anti-WTO protest.
'We have never arrived / so we will never leave' www.oxonianreview.com/articles/swa...
'We have never arrived / so we will never leave' www.oxonianreview.com/articles/swa...
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🎉Thrilled to announce we'll publish debut novel LESSONS IN ATTENTION by @jiminkanggg.bsky.social -- Fall 2026!
@alyssaogi.bsky.social
@alyssaogi.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
🎉Thrilled to announce we'll publish debut novel LESSONS IN ATTENTION by @jiminkanggg.bsky.social -- Fall 2026!
@alyssaogi.bsky.social
@alyssaogi.bsky.social
I'm thrilled to share that my debut novel, Lessons in Attention, will be out with @tinhouse.bsky.social in 2026! A testament to faith, friendship, and how people change us, it follows a series of friends as they attempt to reach one another across Oxford, Oslo, Brazil. Can't wait to share it 🤗
September 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I'm thrilled to share that my debut novel, Lessons in Attention, will be out with @tinhouse.bsky.social in 2026! A testament to faith, friendship, and how people change us, it follows a series of friends as they attempt to reach one another across Oxford, Oslo, Brazil. Can't wait to share it 🤗
“What the sentence says is that David and Giovanni’s romance will not last; but that meaning is scored to a music of rapture.” Amazed by @garthgreenwell.bsky.social's take on affirming literature: that affirmation comes as much from style—an author's care—as the subject harpers.org/archive/2025...
Enamored of the Abyss, by Garth Greenwell
On the place of affirmation in art
harpers.org
September 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
“What the sentence says is that David and Giovanni’s romance will not last; but that meaning is scored to a music of rapture.” Amazed by @garthgreenwell.bsky.social's take on affirming literature: that affirmation comes as much from style—an author's care—as the subject harpers.org/archive/2025...
Officially arrived at Stanford, aka home for the foreseeable future! This England transplant is yet to be sick of the sun… does one ever tire of it? 🌞
September 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Officially arrived at Stanford, aka home for the foreseeable future! This England transplant is yet to be sick of the sun… does one ever tire of it? 🌞
A new short story joins the Oxonian Review's 'To Write Hong Kong' column—steeped in the ambivalence of freelancing and the state of being in between: www.oxonianreview.com/articles/the...
The Freelancer
A short story by Emily Wong.
www.oxonianreview.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM
A new short story joins the Oxonian Review's 'To Write Hong Kong' column—steeped in the ambivalence of freelancing and the state of being in between: www.oxonianreview.com/articles/the...
For @pawprinceton.bsky.social, I wrote a guide for the perfect day in my favorite city (and current home): Oxford! Find here an itinerary full of good food and sunshine-y spots, weather permitting... paw.princeton.edu/article/tour...
paw.princeton.edu
July 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
For @pawprinceton.bsky.social, I wrote a guide for the perfect day in my favorite city (and current home): Oxford! Find here an itinerary full of good food and sunshine-y spots, weather permitting... paw.princeton.edu/article/tour...
A digital souvenir from an incredible conference in Oxford! (Plus my reflection on how creative non-fiction resembles my understanding of Quaker worship— how, at the heart of an assembly of distinct people and thoughts, we come to reach a universal middle that houses the stories we want to tell.)
New on our website: What Is Creative Criticism? A Field Report on a Colloquium at Oxford, hosted by Joe Moshenska and Iris Pearson and with a keynote by Mary Capello.
What is Creative Criticism? - A Field Report on a Colloquium: Oxford, June 2024 - Creative-Critical
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June 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A digital souvenir from an incredible conference in Oxford! (Plus my reflection on how creative non-fiction resembles my understanding of Quaker worship— how, at the heart of an assembly of distinct people and thoughts, we come to reach a universal middle that houses the stories we want to tell.)
Last year I often found myself at a crossroads, thinking: can the events that happen to us be explained by 'divine fate', or is everything totally random? The question made its way into this story, set in Berlin & published this month in La Piccioletta Barca: www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/where-...
La Piccioletta Barca | Where You Need to Go - by Jimin Kang
D. had sensed that the monk would talk to her even before he approached. She couldn’t explain why. The encounter ...
www.picciolettabarca.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Last year I often found myself at a crossroads, thinking: can the events that happen to us be explained by 'divine fate', or is everything totally random? The question made its way into this story, set in Berlin & published this month in La Piccioletta Barca: www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/where-...
Tried my hand at writing a short short— a somewhat magical/mystical story about the thin border between rootedness and rootlessness, in The Hong Konger: hongkonger.world/2025/02/28/h...
‘Home is Where the Heart Used to Be’, a short story by Jimin Kang | The Hong Konger
In this flash fiction, the writer explores what it means to belong, and to try to leave.
hongkonger.world
April 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Tried my hand at writing a short short— a somewhat magical/mystical story about the thin border between rootedness and rootlessness, in The Hong Konger: hongkonger.world/2025/02/28/h...
For @pawprinceton.bsky.social, I looked back on 20 years of Princeton’s alumni educational travel program— and got a glimpse of it myself in Buenos Aires 🇦🇷
paw.princeton.edu/article/all-...
paw.princeton.edu/article/all-...
All Aboard
Princeton Journeys, in its 21st year, is looking to attract younger alumni on its excursions, including a recent trip to Argentina
paw.princeton.edu
March 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
For @pawprinceton.bsky.social, I looked back on 20 years of Princeton’s alumni educational travel program— and got a glimpse of it myself in Buenos Aires 🇦🇷
paw.princeton.edu/article/all-...
paw.princeton.edu/article/all-...
Honored to have taken part in Oxford Writers Wheel (by @fusionartsox.bsky.social) as a fiction mentor— really moved to see project testimonials live! fusion-arts.org/projects/oxf...
Big thanks to @jennywcreative.bsky.social for the chance to teach creative writing in one of the homes we share 📚✍️
Big thanks to @jennywcreative.bsky.social for the chance to teach creative writing in one of the homes we share 📚✍️
Oxford Writers Wheel | Fusion Arts
Creative writing workshops for young people in Oxfordshire and beyond.
fusion-arts.org
March 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Honored to have taken part in Oxford Writers Wheel (by @fusionartsox.bsky.social) as a fiction mentor— really moved to see project testimonials live! fusion-arts.org/projects/oxf...
Big thanks to @jennywcreative.bsky.social for the chance to teach creative writing in one of the homes we share 📚✍️
Big thanks to @jennywcreative.bsky.social for the chance to teach creative writing in one of the homes we share 📚✍️
'We know all the reasons and more why the writing life isn’t worth it, and clearly none of them really matter because we still write.' Am feeling this especially in relation to the political possibilities of writing— what do words change? How and when do they matter? thepointmag.com/criticism/ca...
Careerism | The Point Magazine
Listen to an audio version of this essay here. An acquaintance of mine, a comedy writer, once admitted to feeling disappointed that she hadn’t won […]
thepointmag.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
'We know all the reasons and more why the writing life isn’t worth it, and clearly none of them really matter because we still write.' Am feeling this especially in relation to the political possibilities of writing— what do words change? How and when do they matter? thepointmag.com/criticism/ca...
Finally returned to Oxford to find that spring has sprung! Hoping that post-6pm sunsets and fresh swathes of crocuses are signs of good things to come 🌼
March 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Finally returned to Oxford to find that spring has sprung! Hoping that post-6pm sunsets and fresh swathes of crocuses are signs of good things to come 🌼
In Macau this weekend learning more about the revitalisation of Macanese patuá, which has fewer than 1000 speakers left worldwide— and I am, as ever, in admiration of the way in which the city makes its multilingualism known! 🇲🇴
March 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In Macau this weekend learning more about the revitalisation of Macanese patuá, which has fewer than 1000 speakers left worldwide— and I am, as ever, in admiration of the way in which the city makes its multilingualism known! 🇲🇴
For #Lent this year I’ll be spending 40 days reading Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’—trying to build the habit of daily reading & tackling a book I’ve been meaning to read for a long time!
(This morning’s reading location: Caffe Trieste in San Francisco…)
(This morning’s reading location: Caffe Trieste in San Francisco…)
March 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
For #Lent this year I’ll be spending 40 days reading Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’—trying to build the habit of daily reading & tackling a book I’ve been meaning to read for a long time!
(This morning’s reading location: Caffe Trieste in San Francisco…)
(This morning’s reading location: Caffe Trieste in San Francisco…)
I interviewed translators, publishers, and tech experts on AI's impact on literary translation for @pw.org, and what we stand to lose of the 'human and humane' in the literary process: www.pw.org/content/ai_t..., featuring @deepvellum.bsky.social, @societyofauthors.bsky.social & others!
AI Threatens Literary Translation
In response to publishers turning to artificial intelligence as a tool to expedite or replace the work of human translators, publishers and translators question whether machine-led translation can tru...
www.pw.org
February 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I interviewed translators, publishers, and tech experts on AI's impact on literary translation for @pw.org, and what we stand to lose of the 'human and humane' in the literary process: www.pw.org/content/ai_t..., featuring @deepvellum.bsky.social, @societyofauthors.bsky.social & others!
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Read our March/April 2025 issue, which includes a feature on Karen Russell’s second novel, The Antidote (Knopf); a look at road trips, retreats, and residencies to take your creative practice off the beaten path; Jimin Kang’s take on AI-generated literary translation; and more! at.pw.org/MarApr2025
February 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Read our March/April 2025 issue, which includes a feature on Karen Russell’s second novel, The Antidote (Knopf); a look at road trips, retreats, and residencies to take your creative practice off the beaten path; Jimin Kang’s take on AI-generated literary translation; and more! at.pw.org/MarApr2025
From @mmschwartz.bsky.social: "...the closeness we have with a language is not just a product of our ability to use it but of other emotional valences as well. If language is a form of identity, it is one that may be changed by circumstance or even by force of will." www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/m...
Can You Lose Your Native Tongue?
After moving abroad, I found my English slowly eroding. It turns out our first languages aren’t as embedded as we think.
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February 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
From @mmschwartz.bsky.social: "...the closeness we have with a language is not just a product of our ability to use it but of other emotional valences as well. If language is a form of identity, it is one that may be changed by circumstance or even by force of will." www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/m...
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Wherever possible please buy your books directly from authors and/or publishers. Even ebooks (then Amazon can't delete them either). We make a better cut and you get the same thing or better, plus Bezos and ilk don't get richer. Win win win.
February 17, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Wherever possible please buy your books directly from authors and/or publishers. Even ebooks (then Amazon can't delete them either). We make a better cut and you get the same thing or better, plus Bezos and ilk don't get richer. Win win win.
Beautiful read about Seamus Heaney and the power of literature to shape a place, its people, its history, and how words give shape to our lives when the facts of our politics don't "fit into a neat rubric" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment
What Seamus Heaney gave me
www.theatlantic.com
February 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Beautiful read about Seamus Heaney and the power of literature to shape a place, its people, its history, and how words give shape to our lives when the facts of our politics don't "fit into a neat rubric" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Have been reading lots of literary profiles lately and utterly blown away by Giles Harvey's—you get a sense of the living, moving person, the cultural contexts that formed them, then incredible literary analysis that somehow makes the tenuous life/art connection work...
February 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Have been reading lots of literary profiles lately and utterly blown away by Giles Harvey's—you get a sense of the living, moving person, the cultural contexts that formed them, then incredible literary analysis that somehow makes the tenuous life/art connection work...
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We are excited to soon publish the first poems in our new En Route section, curated by our Poetry Editor, Eric Yip. Submissions for this section are accepted on a rolling basis. www.asiancha.com/wp/en-route/
February 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
We are excited to soon publish the first poems in our new En Route section, curated by our Poetry Editor, Eric Yip. Submissions for this section are accepted on a rolling basis. www.asiancha.com/wp/en-route/
Finally made it to Bluesky! And hoping this will motivate me to venture back into the conversations happening online... 🌏
February 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Finally made it to Bluesky! And hoping this will motivate me to venture back into the conversations happening online... 🌏