John Gu
John Gu is a storyteller, critic, and journalist based in Austin, Texas. His writing has appeared in The Southern Review,
The Missouri Review, The Chicago Review of Books, and Hobart.
Selected publications
Book Reviews and Narrative Nonfiction
- Book Review of The Applicant, in Hobart, August 2023
- “An Inverse Mirroring of the Frame in Mouth to Mouth”, in The Chicago Review of Books, January 2022
- Book review of Last Summer in the City, in The Massachusetts Review online, October 2021
- “A Long-Awaited Return in Paris is a Party, Paris is a Ghost”, in The Chicago Review of Books, August 2021
- "Gu Père", in Litbreak Magazine, September 2023
- “Gone”, Five on the Fifth, Volume 5 Issue 12, October 2020
Fiction
- "In the East", in Your Impossible Voice, November 2023
- “A Contested Island”, in Eclectica Magazine, Volume 27 Issue 1, January 2023
- “The High Castle”, in The Missouri Review, April 2022
- “Some Reflections Occasioned By the Publication of the Revised Edition of the Practical Chinese Reader”, The Southern Review, Issue 251, Autumn 2020
Ranked list of the best literary magazines
- My list of the best literary magazines to submit short stories to can be found here.
Other stuff