Lily Hoang, On Reading

"Books are my graying hairs: there is only one until one is five and five is a million and on and on. I can pluck my hair more quickly than I can read a book though.

I don’t pull out my gray hairs."


{Lily Hoang is the author of The Evolutionary Revolution, Changing (recipient of a 2009 PEN/Beyond Margins Award), and Parabola (winner of the 2006 Chiasmus Press Un-Doing the Novel Contest). She serves as an Associate Editor at Starcherone Books and Editor at Tarpaulin Sky. Visit her website here for more information.}