This week, we opened 385 new affordable homes in Brooklyn. We’ll soon grow the Innovative Urban Village to 2,000 affordable homes, child care, jobs, a grocery store and a performing arts center. That’s what it looks like to build a city without pricing out the working class.

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👇🏽👇🏽 #booksky #writingcommunity #publishing

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I did run into the lady I argued with again—her name is Nayoung—I apologized to her and we had a nice chat. She graciously accepted my apology. She’s right; some things just can’t be translated. And I have to admit that. I have to be ok with that. I try REALLY HARD. It’s enough. But not everything.

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But my friend and writer Lois Rho pointed out to me that to acknowledge language has a historical context and vector and affect specific to an ethnicity may feel essentialist but that doesn’t mean that it’s untrue. And she’s right. To deny it is a fool’s errand. It is obvious even to a baby.

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I feel bad about calling someone a nationalist at an event today. I meant it as a joke but it came off so mean. I was also wrong. I just have such a visceral reaction against any hint of ethnic essentialism, which I feel goes against my larger project of Korean literature in translation.

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