Authors Answer Interview
Have you ever experienced Imposter Syndrome? Absolutely! I constantly think that if I publish one more book, I can finally be considered an author. But after two traditional publishing book deals, I wonder if I’ll ever feel settled (Read more)
Vogue Hong Kong: Peek into the secrets of Hong Kong people buried in the darkest corners
Writer Carmen Suen relays the publishing journey of Hong Kong Noir, one of the newest additions to the renowned noir series from Akashic Books. (Read more)
Cha Journal: [REVIEW] “HONG KONG NOIR” BY AKIN JEJE
Elegiac rather than horrific, more melancholic than murderous, Hong Kong Noir‘s fourteen tales collectively evoke past and contemporary visions of a city steeped in tradition and street-lore even at the heights of its ambitious, restless modernity. (Read more)
Asian Review of Books: Hong Kong Noir Review
Hong Kong Noir, the latest in a lengthy list of urban “Noir” collections published by Akashic Books, will surely raise the hackles of genre purists much as Hong Kong movies of the 1980s and ’90s initially did with filmgoers abroad. (Read more)
Hong Kong Noir: A Literary Journey into Hong Kong’s Heart of Darkness
Published in Zolima City Magazine
Since the inception of film noir in the 1940s, Hong Kong has been no stranger to darkness: thrilling cop chases in old industrial areas, silhouettes of femme fatales mystified by a thin cold mist, pallid faces of the downtrodden glowing under neon signs, to name but a few. (Read more)
To Love A Place: TALKING WITH SUSAN BLUMBERG-KASON
Published in South China Morning Post
In 2013, both my novel and Susan Blumberg-Kason’s memoir had just debuted, and our books were repeatedly placed on book lists featuring white female protagonists and Asian male love interests. (Read more)
Hong Kong Noir: 14 short stories delve into ghosts and spirits lurking in ultra-modern city
Published in South China Morning Post
Hong Kong may be known for its cold-hearted capitalism and ultra-modern efficiency, but it is also a society steeped in tradition and superstitions. Fortune-tellers hold sway over tycoons, property giants avoid having an unlucky fourth floor in buildings, and shrines shrouded in incense smoke sit among the world’s most expensive real estate. (Read more)
Page Turners
Published in the December 2018 Issue of Ritz Carlton Magazine
“Now in the 14th year of its Noir series – which has collected original stories from Brooklyn to Istanbul to Lagos – Akashic has assembled a delightfully dark collection of fiction from Hong Kong, a city where talk is cheap and cash is still king.” (Read more)
The Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2018: PART 3
Published in CrimeReads on September 20, 2018
75 Crime Novels, Mysteries, and Thrillers to Close Out the Year (Read more)
10 Book to Read This December
Published in BBC on November 28, 2018
“The history of Hong Kong, once a fishing village, encompasses piracy, the opium trade, prostitution, corruption, espionage and revolutionary plots; grist for the 14 dark tales in Hong Kong Noir. Xu Xi’s story is narrated by the ghost of a bar girl at Seven Sisters, a young girl sold by her father at the age of 12.” (Read more)
Good Chinese Wife • Susan Blumberg-Kason
Published in Bookish Asia on December 14, 2015
“Good Chinese Wife, a memoir published by Sourcebooks, is a poignant tale that expats should enjoy about the overlap of China and the West. Susan Blumberg-Kason details her unfortunate marriage to a Chinese music scholar, as they meet while studying in Hong Kong and then travel to his hometown in Hubei Province before eventually settling in San Francisco, California.” (Read more)
North Shore NCJW installs new officers
Published in the Chicago Tribune on July 30, 2015
“The Wilmette-based National Council of Jewish Women, Chicago North Shore Section hosted its 2015 Installation and Awards Celebration June 24 at a fellowship luncheon at Wildfire Restaurant in Glenview. Keynote Speaker Susan Blumberg-Kason of Hinsdale spoke to the audience of about 60 on the Jews of Shanghai.” (Read more)
Love Gone Wrong: Susan Blumberg-Kason’s Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong
Published in the December 2014 Issue of Cha
“Reading Susan Blumberg-Kason’s very intense and intimate memoir, Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong, is a bit like watching a train wreck in slow motion—the trip-ups in her intercultural marriage with a Chinese man are numerous, and things keep getting worse. Before you’re a third of the way through the book, you know there’s only one possible ending to the story.” (Read more)
書介：2014拾本好書
Published in the Apple Daily on December 26, 2014
“美國女孩在90年代隻身來港，幾年後嫁了一個大陸男人，搬到湖北跟他的家人同住，但文化差異和語言不通令事情迅速逆轉。她這本自傳不單止令我明白為何有人會跑到地球另一邊追尋真愛，也讓我回味自己90年代在中國的生活。只是20年的分別，卻已經是另一番光景。” (Read more)
Stunning Photos Show The Transformation Of Hong Kong Over 50 Years
Published in the Business Insider on October 28, 2014
“Author and writer Susan Blumberg-Kason has been interested in Hong Kong since an early age, when she dreamed of the the neon streets and double-decker buses. She soon moved there to study and married a Chinese man. The memoir about her experiences, “Good Chinese Wife,” came out this year.” (Read more)
The Good Chinese Wife
Published in the Entropy Magazine on October 8, 2014
“The train is hot. I’m reading Susan Blumberg Kason’s memoir, The Good Chinese Wife, on my Kindle. A woman I don’t know across from me asks if she can use my phone to make a call. I tell her I don’t have a phone. She asks four others in our row. All refuse. She sits back down and takes out her own phone and gets into a vociferous argument with someone. I have no idea what language she’s speaking in or why she needed another phone in the first place. I drown out the argument and focus on the memoir.” (Read more)
One for the Books: Chinese-American Tales
Published in the Record-Courier on August 24, 2014
“At 24, the author was an American grad student in Hong Kong when she met Cai, a divorced man from mainland China studying ethnomusicology. As she tutored him in English, they fell in love, then married in haste.” (Read more)
Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong
Published in the South China Morning Post on August 17, 2014
“When Susan Blumberg-Kason sought legal help in the US to leave her Chinese husband of five years, she was told to explain the reasons for the marriage breakdown and events leading to her flight from their San Francisco home with their toddler. Her narrative covered 67 handwritten sheets of lined paper.” (Read more)
Susan Blumberg-Kason’s Tale of Trying – and Failing – To Be a ‘Good Chinese Wife’
Published in the Beijinger on August 5, 2014
“Intercultural relationships can be a wonderful or contentious part of living overseas, and sometimes both. Often it works out, but occasionally it fails, even after years of marriage.” (Read more)
Good Chinese Wife
Published in the August 2014 issue of Today’s Chicago Woman
“When her marriage to ‘the Chinese man of her dreams’ results in a culture clash that’s far from the fairytale ending she expected, Chicago journalist Susan Blumberg-Kason must do all she can to protect her newborn son.” (Read more)
‘Good Chinese Wife’ Wrings Insight From a Bad Gig
Published in The Wall Street Journal on July 31, 2014
“‘I thought I knew what I was getting into,’ is what author Susan Blumberg-Kason told me about her marriage at the age of 24 to a Chinese doctoral student she met while living in Hong Kong. And she had every reason to feel confident: Competent in Mandarin and with multiple trips to China under her belt, she had about as good a grasp of the country as any Westerner could back in 1995, when few had the opportunity to travel widely there.” (Read more)
Good Chinese Wife: Interview with Susan Blumberg-Kason
Published in Shanghaiist on July 26, 2014
“Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong is author Susan Blumberg-Kason’s memoir about her experience living as an American expat in Hong Kong and mainland China and her difficult marriage to a Chinese man. The book centers on cultural clashes and misunderstanding amidst a coming-of-age story. ” (Read more)