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Books The Dead Do Not Improve: A Novel Education | ||
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Jay Caspian Kang is an American writer and editor. He is a correspondent on Vice News Tonight and as a writer-at-large at the New York Times Magazine. Previously he was an editor of Grantland, then of the science and technology blog Elements at The New Yorker. His debut novel The Dead Do Not Improve was released by the Hogarth/Random House in the summer of 2012.
Contents
- B s report jay caspian kang mark lisanti david jacoby 2012 03 20
- The Brian Lehrer Show The Science of a Likable Presidential Candidate
- Early life
- Career
- References
The Brian Lehrer Show: The Science of a 'Likable' Presidential Candidate
Early life
Kang was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Boston and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He graduated from Bowdoin College. He received his Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) degree from Columbia University.
Career
Kang's debut novel The Dead Do Not Improve was released in 2012 by Hogarth/Random House. The book was summarized by Kirkus Book Reviews as a "Pynchon-esque menagerie of California surfers, cops, thugs and dot-com workers [that] converge in a comic anti-noir." 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 involving a struggle between fictionalized versions of two San Francisco institutions: Cafe Gratitude and Kink.com. Kang has said 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.
Kang joined Vice in June 2016 as civil rights correspondent, appearing on HBO's "Vice News Tonight". He is also a writer-at-large for The New York Times Magazine. Previously he was a founding editor of the ESPN sports and pop-culture blog Grantland, and then served as editor of the science and technology blog Elements at The New Yorker from April to November 2014.
Kang currently lives in New York.