the latest news, views and publicationsYou Tube interview for "What's On Your Mind?"
Swiss Re documentary: multiple voices on the future of the planet The Four Quarters Magazine (Apr 2013)
Read the story "Crying with Audrey Hepburn" 
on the South Island, New Zealand, where she was very, very happy - photo by Wm. McGuire
"Precarious Precision" new essay in Toad Suck Review, Univ. of Central Arkansas, Conway, Issue 3, Jan/Feb 2013. Guest blogger Fall 2012 at Ploughshares "THAT LIT, LIT LIFE (w/global characteristics)" - see links - Fall issue also includes new essay "My Mother's Story: The Fiction & Fact" - link below. "Fear Itself" - an ekphrastic essay in a collaborative series with photographer David Clarke - online at Ninth Letter (see link below) Ninth Letter - Issue 37 Oct 2012 - featured writer/artist
"Fear Itself" - an ekphrastic essay in response to photograph by David Clarke Ploughshares Blog (fall 2012)
That Lit, Lit Life (w/global characteristics) Ploughshares Fall 2012
"My Mother's Story: The Fiction & Fact" appears in Ploughshares, Fall 2012 
An evening with Colm Tóibín. Photo by Don Ellis.
new fiction at Kenyon Review "All About Skin"
hear Xu read a brief selection Essay "Winter Moon" appears in STILL, ed. Roelof Baaker, Negative Press, London.
Book launch September 26, 2012 at Foyles in London Quoted in Wall Street Journal August 21, 2012
On China and Cloud Atlas
What do we think we desire? What do we truly desire? These are the two competing forces underlying Xu Xi’s latest fiction collection, ACCESS, released November 2011 by Signal 8 Press. These thirteen tales are at once acerbic and heartbreaking, directing our gaze at the incongruities of human relations and the persistence of wounds our hearts cannot heal.
Contents TALL TALES: Anon. • Iron Light • The Wang Candidate CIRCULAR TALES: Space • To Body To Chicken • Servitude FAIRY TALES: Access • Agora • Famine OLD WIVES' TALES: Trashy Desires of Women Nearing Fifty • Available BEASTLY TALES: Crying with Audrey Hepburn • Lady Day OTHER WRITERS SAY:
“A collection of tales with hints of Chaucer, ranging from the world of privilege to office workers and massage girls; from heavily ironic vignettes on the corporate world to edgy stories of broken lives and selfish times . . . the access code to this grammar is to glean the shadow of loss lying between language and the loneliness of existence.” Brian Castro, author of Shanghai Dancing, The Bath Fugues and The Garden Book “Xu Xi has a sharp ear. The dominant voices in her latest collection of short stories belong to the bold and elegant Chinese women, the high achievers, losers, dreamers and dancers with families and lovers, who are separated by continents and cultures. Their stories, unsentimentally told, are a stimulating read.” Suchen Christine Lim, author of A Bit of Earth, Fistful of Colours and Rice Bowl Silk Road Review
story "To Body To Chicken" reprinted in latest issue Prime Number Magazine Issue 17, 2012
book review of Access RTHK Radio 3 June 4
Morning Brew with Phil Whelan Shanghai City Weekend Blog Feb 29
book review of Access
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