Mid-Week Five Minute Interview: Xujun Eberlein
1. Who are you?
A good question. In essence I’m a person of conflicts, and a writer who involuntarily creates conflicts. The list of my personal conflicts is too long for a minute. For the latter I’ll give one recent example: A few weeks ago my website www.xujuneberlein.com went live, and the very first web contact I received said, “please don’t write anything about Red Guards, Cultural Revolution, they are all things of the past, irrelevent (sic) to today’s China.”
2. What do you write?
Short stories, personal essays, narrative journalism, and novels, all about life.
3. Why do you write what you write?
I write to raise unanswered questions in life and to entertain the reader at the same time. At a higher level, I long for intelligent discourse. America is a very difficult place for in-depth friendship, thus I use my writing as a means to make friends. Of course, I might make enemies instead.
4. Why should we read what you write?
You don’t have to, but I hope you do.
5. Is the world a better place because of what you write?
I thought of this question in my 20s, long before I understood that no moral judgement can be placed on the randomness of being, and I myself was of no importance.
[This Absurd Life’s Five Minute Interview: One writer, five questions, one minute per question.]
Previously on the Five Minute Interview:
Alicia Gifford
Lydia Theys
Ed Touchette
Ellen Meister
Foster Trescot
Roger Morris
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