📕'Ling Ma’s stories are about people who don’t fit in, who don’t feel at home, even in their own skin...when they dare to do something decisive, things inevitably go wrong.' -JackHelbig on Bliss Montage, a new collection of short stories.|👇
Torn Curtain, L’avventura, Ghost Worlde is about a woman who becomes a professor of cinema studies. The very title of the book is a term in film studies; coined by film scholar Jeanine Basinger, bliss montage refers to movie sequences where a series of pleasurable moments are edited together, usually with sound behind it.
“I worked at the library,” she explains. “I would just get loads of movies and watch them through the weekend. I got a hold of Ingmar Bergman. I watched a bunch of Hitchcock as a teenager. I’m a big fan of Hitchcock films. I really admire the way that he sets up many of his storytelling elements.” “A lot of my cultural consumption as a kid and as a teen was about assimilation,” Ma admits, “trying to understand this culture that I had ended up in but had not personally chosen for myself. But I think I was also trying to demonstrate some kind of mastery of [American] culture.” This may explain why she packs her work with so many pop culture references .
“[I was] trying to learn how to pass as American, trying to figure out how, not through what I was wearing, but through, I guess, my mental state, my frame of mind.” Ma pauses, not finishing the thought, then says, “Like, what is the American frame of mind?”, she admitted she felt pressured, while an MFA candidate, to write a “traditional immigration novel.” This issue comes up in her story, “Peking Duck,” where a woman is criticized in a writing class for perpetuating Asian stereotypes.
After college she worked at various publishing jobs. For a while she lived in Berkeley, California, and wrote for the. She attended a summer journalism fellowship at Northwestern’s Medill School, and wrote for the. But Ma’s foray into journalism was short-lived. She lacked, in her words, “a journalist’s killer instinct.”“I think fiction is the space where you can explore things you would never do yourself in your own life,” she says. “[Fiction] is not about replicating reality.
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