James Yeh

Birthday October 11, 1982
Location brooklyn, ny
Website http://yehjames.blogspot.com
IM (GTalk) jamesyeh82

About Me

I write and edit things.

I am a founding editor of Gigantic (http://thegiganticmag.com/), a magazine of short prose and art. My work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pen America, elimae, the anthology 30 Under 30 (Starcherone Books, 2011), the film 60 Writers / 60 Places and elsewhere. I am at work on a novel in stories called I Love and Understand You and Would Be Perfect to You Now.

Born and raised in Anderson, South Carolina, I am very angry about that. I now live in Brooklyn, New York.

Any favorite authors? Books?

Roberto Bolano, Denis Johnson, Louis Ferdinand-Celine, Frank O'Hara, Thomas Bernhard, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor

James Yeh's Wall

David Erlewine, Sep 16

Oh and I loved this line — “At the station for a moment I considered getting on too, riding out of my way so we could keep talking, a habit of mine, prolonging things, sometimes too far.” Well done.

David Erlewine, Sep 16

oh, yeah, from THAT place, that is even funnier. I was thinking of the other journal.

By the by, read “Some Kind of Change”. Nice placement! What’s up with the Pen Petition guy/gal? Ha, before you write another word you need to ride a Greyhound bus.

David Erlewine, Sep 16

ha! dude, i’m just screwing around. the only hoping and praying in the erlewine abode is for the creditors to hold off another month. i love the idea of you writing a beatdown letter and then another editor finding it and saying, “Damn, I need to stop being so nice”, or maybe calling you out, saying take it easy on these sensitive-ass writers. ha

David Erlewine, Sep 16

Thanks, James, and I’m always looking for rejections. Sometimes, like now, when days go by without a response of any kind, I hope and pray for even a Lee Klein-beatdown type rejection. I presume that is normal. Maybe I shouldn’t ask.

Darryl Price, Sep 16

Cool to have you with us.

David Erlewine, Sep 15

Welcome, James!

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