Young Writer Seeks Difficulty
Fine Arts Work Center fellow Jiaqi Kang likes to write at cafés. Kang is at work on a first novel, here at the East End Market. Photo: Emily Schiffer
Jiaqi Kang doesn’t like to call their longtime habit — waking in the morning and scribbling recollections of dreams — a “practice,” because that word is “hoity-toity.” But one morning some months ago, after a devastating dream, “I immediately had to write it down,” says Kang.
In the dream, Kang and a friend were excited and nervous, planning an act of protest in support of Palestine, when the friend suddenly vanished, leaving Kang bewildered and alone. In a previous dream, the same friend was wearing a suit, “which he would never do,” they say.
– Dorothea Samaha
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