Beat the rise! Delivery fees are going up soon.
Yi Izzy Yu works, writes, and cavorts in the weird wilds of Pennsylvania. A former professor at both Chinese and American universities, she now works as a translator and cultural consultant. She is the co-translator of the acclaimed The Shadow Book of Ji Yun, and her fiction, nonfiction, and literary translations have appeared in magazines and anthologies ranging from New England Review and Strange Horizons-Samovar to Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror and Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora. She was named a finalist for the 2024 Ignyte Award in Nonfiction and for the 2020 Gabriel García Márquez ""Gabo"" Award for Literature in Translation. John Yu Branscum has published books with Sarabande Books, Argus House Press, and Empress Wu Books, and short form work in magazines ranging from Cincinnati Review to Apex Magazine. He is a recipient of the Ursula Le Guin Award for Imaginative Literature, the Sarah Bruckheimer Award for Literature, and the Argus House Press Award for Poetry. He enjoys family rave nights, durian fruit, and lucid dream vacations. Currently, he is in the midst of a long-term performance art project that involves working as a professor of comparative literature, creative writing, and consciousness studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
""In this luminous and fascinating volume, authors Yi Izzy Yu and John Yu Branscum bring together translated ancient and contemporary accounts and refract them through Asian experience and thought. Whether ultimate explanations lie in collective madness, alien encounters, or something else entirely, Stars That Pause invites readers to explore all possibilities while blending paranormal, psychological, and personal interpretations in the authors' pensive and poetic style. Enigmatic and utterly absorbing."" --Lee Murray, five-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, recipient of New Zealand's Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Fiction, and co-editor of Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror ""Yu and Branscum have unearthed something most of us never knew was lost-two millennia of Asian encounters with phenomena that challenge everything we think we understand about reality. Not just another UFO book, this is a masterwork of comparative mythology and post-disclosure humanities that, like the best art, makes you see differently."" --Bil Brown, editor of Black & Grey magazine ""Stars That Pause is the most ambitious and mind-bending book about UFOs I've ever read. It's mind-bending Asian science fiction that just happens to be nonfiction. Drs. Yu and Branscum's meticulous translations transport you to strange places, revealing Chinese immortals who mirror today's alien profiles, sexual encounters with non-human entities, and Taoist UFO theories rooted in qi dynamics. If you thought UFOs were a solely Western obsession, prepare to have your mind blown."" --Xiuping Shang, poet and visual artist
A Black Man in the White House
Barack Obama and the Triggering...
Paperback
$24.95
Not in-store but you can order this
