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Writing & Interviews

Selected Articles & Essays

  • A Broken Link, The New York Times Magazine
  • Don’t Grieve Alone. Reach Out., The New York Times
  • “Two of Every Race,” The Atlantic
  • The Search for Madame Liu-Tsong, Vulture
  • Magic Can Be Normal, Hazlitt
  • We All Deserve to Be Safe, The Atlantic
  • A Choice in Name Only, The Atlantic
  • Not a Drill, The Atlantic
  • I’m Tired of Trying to Educate White People About Anti-Asian Racism, Time
  • Stories of Transracial Adoptees Must Be Heard—Even Uncomfortable Ones, The Guardian
  • People Want To Hear That I’m Happy I Was Adopted. It’s Not That Simple., BuzzFeed
  • ‘Just Assimilate Her Into Your Family and Everything Will Be Fine,’ Longreads 
  • What I Learned from Kristi Yamaguchi, The New York Times Magazine

 

Selected Profiles/Interviews

  • Grieving His Mother’s Death, Ocean Vuong Learned to Write for Himself, Time
  • Violence Against Asian American Women Is Rooted in More Than Just ‘Hate,’ an interview with Dr. Connie Wun of AAPI Women Lead, The Atlantic
  • Amy Tan on Writing and the Secrets of Her Past, Shondaland
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s Kelly Marie Tran Has a Story to Tell, GQ
  • John Cho, Sulu of ‘Star Trek Beyond,’ Navigates a Beckoning Universe, The New York Times
  • Constance Wu Is Making Her Way in Hollywood, The New York Times Magazine

 

Columns/Miscellany

  • I Have Notes, The Atlantic
  • Care and Feeding advice archive, Slate
    • Care and Feeding: My Son Is Bullying His Asian Classmate About the Pandemic
    • Care and Feeding: How Do I Talk to My Asian American Kids About the Violence Against Our Communities?
    • Care and Feeding: My Nephew Was Part of the Capitol Riot, and My Family Wants Me to Pay for His Lawyer
    • Care and Feeding: My Teen Is Writing Erotic Fanfiction. Should I Make Them Stop?
    • Care and Feeding: Our Daughter Hates the Annual Family Vacation
  • Tournament of Books, The Morning News
    • Judgment: 2020 Super Rooster Tournament of Books Semifinals
    • Judgment: 2017 Tournament of Books Quarterfinals

 

Selected Television/Radio/Podcast Appearances

  • The Daily Show with Trevor Noah: Nicole Chung: All You Can Ever Know & the Challenges of Transracial Adoption
  • The Daily Show Beyond the Scenes: Transracial Adoption and Navigating Racial Identity 
  • NPR Weekend Edition: Family and Identity in ‘All You Can Ever Know’ (with Lulu Garcia-Navarro)
  • BBC Woman’s Hour: Transracial adoption and All You Can Ever Know (with Jane Garvey)
  • NPR/WBUR On Point: Identity, Acceptance Permeate Nicole Chung’s New Memoir of Adoption (with Meghna Chakrabarti)
  • NPR All Things Considered: How to Talk to Kids About Anti-Asian Racism (with Audie Cornish)
  • NPR Code Switch: Our Homeland Is Each Other (with Kat Chow)
  • LA Times Asian Enough: Nicole Chung (with Jen Yamato and Tracy Brown)
  • WNYC’s The Takeaway: How We Give and Receive Help During the Pandemic (with Tanzina Vega)
  • NPR It’s Been a Minute: One year later, the Atlanta spa shootings (with Elise Hu)
  • Live Wire (with Luke Burbank)
  • KUOW’s The Record: On adoption, race, family, and All You Can Ever Know (with Bill Radke)
  • KERA’s Think: A Korean Kid, Her White Parents, and Why That Matters (with Krys Boyd)
  • WNYC’s All of It: A Memoir on Adoption (with Alison Stewart)
  • KRCW’s Press Play: Nicole Chung’s search for her birth parents . . . (with Madeleine Brand) 
  • KUER’s Radio West: All You Can Ever Know (with Doug Fabrizio)
  • Undistracted: “You Deserve to Be Safe” (with Brittany Packnett Cunningham)
  • The Stacks: Nicole Chung / All You Can Ever Know (with Traci Thomas)
  • All the Asians on Star Trek: Away Mission with Nicole Chung (with Phil Yu)

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