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I'm Hua Hsu and I teach in the English department. [pause] My academic work is more about Asian American literature and the history of the trans-Pacific post-war stuff. But on the side I also write about music, sports... I write book reviews, film reviews. I write for a variety of magazines, in grad school I started writing for the Village Voice and the Slate, and a British music magazine called The Wire. Since graduate school, since starting at Vassar, I've written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and I'm currently a staff writer at ESPN's Grantland magazine. [pause] I think there is a mis-understanding between creative writing and critical writing being two completely different spheres of writing. I remember being really influenced when I was in high school and in college. On one hand I was reading a lot of 'zines, music magazine, small press magazines. On the other hand I was reading a lot of University Press cultural studies kinds of books, and I really thought they were actua