John Gu

John Gu's writing has appeared in the Southern Review, the Missouri Review, the Chicago Review of Books, and Hobart. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Austin, TX, United States

Selected work (7 publications)

The Southern Review, 2020

Some Reflections Occasioned by the Publication of the Revised Edition of the Practical Chinese ReaderThe unexpected, bittersweet pleasure of a letter or an e-mail whose sender you haven’t heard from in years. The serendipity of a chance meeting in the street, its loud-laughed happiness, the unguarded, guileless desire to embrace...

The Missouri Review, 2022

The High CastleHard to know what to read in her expression when Vira smiled at me. She was the soul of discretion, although I detected in the looks she gave me a wryness that was both indulgence and chastisement, encouragement and a finger-wagging disapproval.

Litbreak Magazine, 2023

Gu PèreA few years ago, my dad came to visit me while I was living in France.

Five on the Fifth, 2020

GoneOn Monday, I went for lunch at a vegetarian restaurant in Lviv that I used to go to last year and ran into S___, a waitress I knew from that time.

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Links

Interview with the Southern ReviewA Writer’s Insight: John Gu