Deborah Treisman interviews the writer Han Ong about his story “Ming,” which appears in the January 20, 2025, issue of The New Yorker.
The subjects and the various elements of the story were discrete islands to begin with. For the longest time, I wanted to write a story about an outrageous gift—so that’s one strand. And then I was visiting a friend at N.Y.U. Langone, and I thought, out of nowhere, The hospital should have a poet-in-residence program; it would offer the patients some comfort, as well as healthful social interactions.
Most of us who lead humdrum lives welcome any opportunity to swoon, but for Thadeus it’s an existential crisis: he’s afraid that he’ll “swoon” right off the edge of the cliff! Also, I was interested in this paradox, although I understood it only retrospectively: How does a character with a propensity for self-sabotage deal with a gift that is offered, in a sense, with some underlying love? You give us a fair amount of information on Thadeus’s current life and circumstances—and a little on his...
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