Here's the book I mention https://www.amazon.com/Power-vs-Force-Dr-David-R-Hawkins-audiobook/dp/B000KZRMCO
MATTHEW SALESSES is the author of eight books, including The Sense of Wonder (http://www.littlebrown.com/titles/matthew-salesses/the-sense-of-wonder/9780316425919/) , which comes out in January 2023 from Little, Brown. Most recent are the national bestseller Craft in the Real World (http://www.amazon.com/Craft-Real-World-Rethinking-Workshopping/dp/1948226804/) (a Best Book of 2021 at NPR, Esquire, Library Journal, Independent Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Electric Literature, and others) and the PEN/Faulkner Finalist and Dublin Literary Award longlisted novel Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear (http://www.amazon.com/Disappear-Doppelg%C3%A4nger-Novel-Matthew-Salesses/dp/1503943267/) . He also wrote The Hundred-Year Flood (http://goo.gl/gKKeDs) ; I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying (http://www.amazon.com/Im-Not-Saying-Just/dp/1937865061/) ; Different Racisms: On Stereotypes, the Individual, and Asian American Masculinity (http://www.amazon.com/Different-Racisms-Stereotypes-Individual-Masculinity-ebook/dp/B00K08T83C/) ; The Last Repatriate (http://store.nouvella.com/product/the-last-repatriate) ; and Our Island of Epidemics (out of print). Also forthcoming is a memoir-in-essays, To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time.
Matthew was adopted from Korea. In 2015 Buzzfeed named him one of 32 Essential Asian American Writers. His essays can be found in Best American Essays 2020, NPR Code Switch,The New York Times Motherlode, The Guardian, VICE.com, and other venues. His short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, PEN/Guernica, and Witness, among others. He has received awards and fellowships from Bread Loaf, Glimmer Train, Mid-American Review, [PANK], HTMLGIANT, IMPAC, Inprint, and elsewhere.
Matthew is an Assistant Professor of Writing at Columbia University. He earned a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston and an M.F.A. in Fiction from Emerson College. He serves on the editorial boards of Green Mountains Review and Machete (an imprint of The Ohio State University Press), and has held editorial positions at Pleiades, The Good Men Project, Gulf Coast, and Redivider. He has read and lectured widely at conferences and universities and on TV and radio, including PBS, NPR, Al Jazeera America, various MFA programs, and the Tin House, Kundiman, and One Story writing conferences.
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