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From My City-village
An unusual book of quirky essays, some deeply personal. Xu Xi writes from within, of Hong Kong's vanishing culture and sensibility as it transforms it...
An Elegy to a City
"Xu Xi's body of work witnesses her turbulent love affair with her home-city of Hong Kong. In this probing memoir, she unravels her recently finalised...
“Showcases the extremes of one of the world’s capitals. From ghost stories, to historical thrills, to underworld brutality . . . endlessly fascina...
An Elegy For A City: Penguin Specials
Xu Xi’s body of work witnesses her turbulent love affair with her home-city of Hong Kong. In this probing memoir, she unravels her recently finalise...
Essays of Being
In This Fish Is Fowl Xu Xi offers the transnational and feminist perspective of a contemporary “glocalized” American life. Xu’s quirky, darkly c...
Interruptions is rooted in the tradition of contemporary ekphrastic writing, where an author creates a literary response in order to confront or narra...
With Photographs by David Clarke and Essays by Xu Xi
A Novel
"Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Hybrid Genre. FREE BOAT: COLLECTED LIES AND LOVE POEMS selects from a sequence of sonnets written from 2008-2015. Reed, ...
An Anthology of Micro Writing and Fine Art Photography
Fifty-two writers responded in exactly 100 words to the fine art photography of Meg Boscov to create an anthology of healing visions....
Spring 2015
Our first issue of 2015 is a veritable international soirée! "Off-Season With Snake" chronicles writer Xu Xi's return to Hong Kong to c...