Jay Caspian Kang

Jay Caspian Kang is an American writer and editor, most known for his sports articles for Grantland, for which he worked as an Editor until December 2013.[1] He currently serves as the science and technology editor for The New Yorker's Elements blog.[2] His debut novel, The Dead Do Not Improve was released by Hogarth/Random House in the Summer of 2012.[3]

Biography

Kang was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Boston and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He graduated from Bowdoin College.[4] At Bowdoin, he was awarded the prestigious 2003 Sinkinson Prize for Best Short Story and founded ritalin magazine.[5] He received his Masters of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University.[6]

Work

Kang's journalism has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Wired, The Morning News, Deadspin, The Awl, and The Atlantic.com and many of his sports articles have appeared in Bill Simmons' Grantland.[7] Among his more notable sports articles for Grantland are his articles covering Jeremy Lin. His notable articles on Lin include "A Question of Identity",[8] "The Uncertain Future of Linsanity"[9] and "Dumb Move, Dolan."[10] He has also written an article about Ichiro Suzuki entitled "Immigrant Misappropriations: The Importance of Ichiro"[11] and about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar entitled "What the World Got Wrong About Kareem Abdul-Jabbar."[12]

Kang's debut novel, The Dead Do Not Improve was released in 2012 by Hogarth/Random House.[13] The book was summarized by the Kirkus Book Reviews as a "Pynchon-esque menagerie of California surfers, cops, thugs and dot-com workers [that] converge in a comic anti-noir."[14] The book revolves around a disgruntled MFA graduate named Philip Kim, who discovers that his elderly neighbor has been murdered, and who soon becomes the unlikely protagonist of a quickly unfolding mystery.[15] Kang mentioned that he wanted to write the book about Korean American male anger and reflect on how the Virginia Tech shooter, Seung-Hui Cho, was also Korean.[16]

Kang currently lives in New York and Los Angeles.[17][18]

References

  1. ↑ http://grantland.com/features/beyonce-jennifer-hudson-year-divas/
  2. ↑ "Contributors- Jay Caspian Kang". http://www.newyorker.com. The New Yorker. Retrieved 16 October 2014. External link in |website= (help)
  3. ↑ Huffington Post, The Book We're Talking About: 'The Dead Do Not Improve' By Jay Caspian Kang, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/06/dead-do-not-improve_n_1747545.html
  4. ↑ Y. Peter Kang, August Issue: Jay Caspian Kang Explores Korean American Male Anger in New Novel, KoreAm Journal, http://iamkoream.com/august-issue-jay-caspian-kang-explores-korean-american-male-anger-in-new-novel/
  5. ↑ Bowdoin Orient, http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/archives/2003-02-28/news02.html
  6. ↑ The Morning News, Losing in Vegas: Jay Caspian Kang's "literary moment", http://www.niemanstoryboard.org/2010/11/11/jason-kang-morning-news-the-high-literary-moment-gambling-addiction/
  7. ↑ Y, Peter Kang, August Issue: Jay Caspian Kang Explores Korean American Male Anger in New Novel, KoreAm Journal, http://iamkoream.com/august-issue-jay-caspian-kang-explores-korean-american-male-anger-in-new-novel/
  8. ↑ Jay Caspian Kang, Grantland, A Question of Identity: The headline, the tweet, and the unfair significance of Jeremy Lin, http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7601157/the-headline-tweet-unfair-significance-jeremy-lin
  9. ↑ Jay Caspian Kang, The Uncertain Future of Linsanity: His season is over. But where will he go next year?, Grantland, http://www.grantland.com/story/id/7601157/the-headline-tweet-unfair-significance-jeremy-lin
  10. ↑ Jay Caspian Kang, Dumb Move, Dolan: Trying to understand why the Knicks let Jeremy Lin walk away from Madison Square Garden, Grantland http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8174968/jeremy-lin-leaving-new-york-knicks-james-dolan-blundered-again
  11. ↑ Jay Caspian Kang, Immigrant Misappropriations: The Importance of Ichiro, http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6626419/importance-ichiro
  12. ↑ Jay Caspian Kang, What the World Got Wrong About Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/magazine/what-the-world-got-wrong-about-kareem-abdul-jabbar.html
  13. ↑ Grantland, First Serial: The Dead Do Not Improve, http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8219991/exclusive-excerpt-grantland-editor-jay-caspian-kang-new-book-dead-do-not-improve
  14. ↑ Kirkus Review of Jay Caspian Kang's The Dead No Not Improve, https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jay-caspian-kang/dead-do-not-improve/
  15. ↑ Huffington Post, The Book We're Talking About: 'The Dead Do Not Improve' By Jay Caspian Kang, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/06/dead-do-not-improve_n_1747545.html
  16. ↑ Y, Peter Kang, August Issue: Jay Caspian Kang Explores Korean American Male Anger in New Novel, KoreAm Journal, http://iamkoream.com/august-issue-jay-caspian-kang-explores-korean-american-male-anger-in-new-novel/
  17. ↑ The Huffington Post, The Book We're Talking About: 'The Dead No Not Improve' By Jay Caspian Kang, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/06/dead-do-not-improve_n_1747545.html
  18. ↑ Angry Asian Man, Angry Reader of the Week: Jay Caspian Kang, http://blog.angryasianman.com/2012/08/angry-reader-of-week-jay-caspian-kang.html

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