Yuyi Chen’s THE ACADEMICS is as rollicking as it is cutting in its narrativizing the experience of a Chinese student navigating the cutthroat and hyper-performative terrain that is American academia.
Advance praise for THE ACADEMICS:
Yuyi Chen’s new chapbook THE ACADEMICS is deeply satisfying and sharply funny, deploying contradictory utopian impulses at every impasse, equally joyful and critical in turns. Chen’s sensibility is nuanced and engaging, with a poetics which interrogates language’s adequacy to meet the task at hand. Readers are drawn alongside as Chen explores the im/possibilities of familial attachments, institutional exploitation of hidden labor, and the liberatory abundance of solidarity.
—Amie Zimmerman , author of False Spring
I love the $11.99/lb halogen ambiance of the Whole Foods hot bar for reading THE ACADEMICS.
—Lizabetta Frankline, author of Digital Ream
Product Details
100 copies of this title were digitally printed by ‘Future Days’ in Kingston, NY, in August of 2026 (thanks Ryan!). 74 are numbered and staple-bound (this edition), 26 are lettered and sewn-bound (for the author and press). Covers are ‘Solar Yellow,’ end papers are ‘Royal Blue,’ and the text-stock is speckle-tone, all milled in the USA. Typesetting and design were handled by Léon Pradeau with a cover by T E-Y.
Ships October* 2026.
We apologize for a slight delay!
Yuyi Chen’s THE ACADEMICS is as rollicking as it is cutting in its narrativizing the experience of a Chinese student navigating the cutthroat and hyper-performative terrain that is American academia.
Advance praise for THE ACADEMICS:
Yuyi Chen’s new chapbook THE ACADEMICS is deeply satisfying and sharply funny, deploying contradictory utopian impulses at every impasse, equally joyful and critical in turns. Chen’s sensibility is nuanced and engaging, with a poetics which interrogates language’s adequacy to meet the task at hand. Readers are drawn alongside as Chen explores the im/possibilities of familial attachments, institutional exploitation of hidden labor, and the liberatory abundance of solidarity.
—Amie Zimmerman , author of False Spring
I love the $11.99/lb halogen ambiance of the Whole Foods hot bar for reading THE ACADEMICS.
—Lizabetta Frankline, author of Digital Ream
Product Details
100 copies of this title were digitally printed by ‘Future Days’ in Kingston, NY, in August of 2026 (thanks Ryan!). 74 are numbered and staple-bound (this edition), 26 are lettered and sewn-bound (for the author and press). Covers are ‘Solar Yellow,’ end papers are ‘Royal Blue,’ and the text-stock is speckle-tone, all milled in the USA. Typesetting and design were handled by Léon Pradeau with a cover by T E-Y.
Ships October* 2026.
We apologize for a slight delay!