Yellow Redneck Blues: to the east WELCOME

"Around the base of the statue are four words facing the directions of this world, to the east WELCOME, to the west WELCOME, to the north WELCOME, to the south WELCOME. Just behind the statue are three poplar trees, almost leafless except for the top branches. The statue stands in front of the middle tree. All around the grass is wet from the rains of early February."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

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"[James Yeh is] probably one of the four or five best writers in the United States who hasn’t yet published a book."

--Kyle Minor, HTMLGIANT

Nice words about my chapbook "9/16/10," cited as a notable story in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011:

"Spit out in tense, hypnotic prose, James Yeh's Taiwanese-American kaddish can be read in the time it takes you to brush your teeth, but I'm going to bet you don't forget its sadness or its post-Brooklyn dread for a long, long time."

--Ed Park, author of Personal Days/a founding editor of the Believer

"Yeh’s quiet meditation on death will sneak in and throw up a window in your soul with its intensity."

--Deb Olin Unferth, author of Revolution and Minor Robberies

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Nice words about my zine collaborations with Andrew Bulger:

"Adorable [...] and sneakily haunting."

--Julia Jackson, Electric Literature's The Outlet blog

"An eight-page auto-bio zine that tells the story about James Yen [sic] being nervous about playing a show at a bar. A lot of it is about loneliness. There are only ten copies so I don’t know why I’m reviewing it."

--Nick Gazin, VICE

long biographical information

James Yeh (born in 1982 in Anderson, South Carolina) is a writer, editor, and occasional DJ. His fiction appears in NOON, Fence, BOMB Magazine, Tin House, and PEN America, as well as several anthologies, and his nonfiction appears in VICE magazine, the Organist, 'SUP Magazine, the Rumpus, and the Faster Times. His chapbook, "9/16/10," published by Swill Children in 2010, was selected as a notable story in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011. A recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Columbia University, he was a 2011 Center for Fiction New York City Emerging Writers Fellow. He lives in Brooklyn, where he coedits Gigantic, and is at work on a novel. Freelance copy editor and proofreader by day. For queries, questions, or concerns, he may be reached at jamesyeh82 [at] gmail.com.

Yellow Redneck Blues

Thursday, April 7

to the east WELCOME

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