Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.
Jess RowThat became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff. The perfectible, realist story that had these somewhat articulate characters, a lot of silence, a lot of obscured suffering, a lot of manliness, a lot of drinking, a lot of divorces. As my writing went on, I shed a lot of those elements.
Jess RowMost Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues.
Jess RowPrajna is insight into the world. And a lot of that insight has to do with karma and the way karma affects our lives.
Jess Row