Journalist, author of novel In the Shadow of the Greenbrier (2024) and non-fiction Homeward Bound. emilymatchar.com or @emilymatcharwriter on Insta
Joined February 2009
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12 Jul 2023
Cover reveal! Available for preorder, out March 2024
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12 Mar 2024
You will LOVE @EmilyMatchar’s In the Shadow of the Greenbrier! It’s truly a saga of what it means to be a foreigner in any land at any time — even in your own family. I’m so honored I got to bring it to life in the audiobook! Thank you @MollyyLoRe @livmacsmith @PRHAudio 🐧
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23 Feb 2024
Thank you @EmilyMatchar for picking up the conversation like we never left it, as we’ve done for two decades ✨
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5 Jan 2023
Emily's nonfiction book HOMEWARD BOUND was the first book I ever sold as an agent. More than a decade letter, she sent me her novel!
5 Jan 2023
The novel that’s been bouncing around my brain for years will be published in 2024!
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5 Jan 2023
The novel that’s been bouncing around my brain for years will be published in 2024!
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22 Mar 2022
Perhaps my favorite review yet. @AP, you had me at your title, "Humanity crystallized in ‘Letter to a Stranger’". Shout-outs to the work of @thejeremybjones @TrickyLaRouge and @EmilyMatchar embedded in the review--so well-deserved! 🥂
22 Mar 2022
We got picked up by the wire! Overjoyed by this lovely review in the @AssociatedPress and grateful that the book is now known by millions more readers!
bit.ly/3qkZAHB
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22 Mar 2022
Psyched to have an essay in LETTER TO A STRANGER, edited by @colleenkinder of @OffAssignment, out today from @AlgonquinBooks!
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17 Mar 2022
That’s about the shape of it
17 Mar 2022
“The result has been an embarrassingly shambolic effort that has created a preventable public-health disaster, yet another glaring failure of governance from an administration whose defining characteristic is catastrophic ineptitude.” theatlantic.com/internationa…
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2 Mar 2022
One of the fundamentally broken things about Hong Kong's current Covid situation is that it has neither the scale/labor force/compliance of the mainland to do a draconian lockdown, nor the democratic accountability to ensure balanced, reasonable public health measures.
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24 Nov 2021
"Every year, students from the University of Hong Kong have cleaned the pillar, paying special attention to the words engraved at the bottom: 'The old cannot kill the young forever.'"nytimes.com/2021/11/24/opini…
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3 Oct 2021
In lockdown for 18 months, Singapore’s migrant workers yearn for freedom. nytimes.com/2021/09/29/world…
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30 Sep 2021
Complete humans rights abuse
30 Sep 2021
An awful and rather terrifying account on the perils of falling ill whilst under a quarantine order in Hong Kong.
(Source: Facebook HK Quarantine Support Group)
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17 Sep 2021
My op ed in today’s SCMP: despite zero covid in Hong Kong, children have not been allowed to resume normal school day - and EDB seems to have no plan scmp.com/comment/opinion/art…
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8 Sep 2021
“We will now clearly state that this sort of intimidation will stop at us. We will not transmit that fear through our compliance.” - HK's Tiananmen vigil organizer, going down fighting nytimes.com/2021/09/08/world…
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31 Aug 2021
The pioneers of Hong Kong's LGBT movement are largely in jail or targets of Beijing. LegCo is rife with bigotry, most notably in the form of Junius Ho.
And next year, Hong Kong will become the first Asian city to host the Gay Games. by @theodorayuhk
washingtonpost.com/world/asi…
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