{"id":154993,"date":"2022-09-26T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/how-a-bay-area-raised-critic-captured-the-banal-ecstasy-of-friendship"},"modified":"2022-09-26T13:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T13:00:32","slug":"how-a-bay-area-raised-critic-captured-the-banal-ecstasy-of-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/how-a-bay-area-raised-critic-captured-the-banal-ecstasy-of-friendship","title":{"rendered":"How a Bay Area-raised critic captured &#8216;the banal ecstasy of friendship&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had to keep dodging the rain. I&#8217;d met Hua Hsu at Bard , the liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, and the weather made it impossible for us to sit still as we talked about his memoir, &#8220; Stay True .&#8221; In the book, Hsu, a brilliant, delightfully obsessive cultural critic on staff at the New Yorker, traces how he came to think about music and community, from his Cupertino childhood through college. At Bard, the weather drove us inside and out, from his office to benches and tables and porticos. Students flowed around us in cohesive packs. They&#8217;d only recently arrived on campus, but before school, they&#8217;d been connected online with their classmates. &#8220;They all presorted who&#8217;s into what,&#8221; Hsu explained. The young Gen X-er&#8217;s experience at UC Berkeley was basically the opposite; he found his friends the analog way &#8212; through other friends, coincidence, physical proximity. For Hsu back then, the music you liked or the vintage sweater<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hua Hsu found his best friend at UC Berkeley &#8212; and lost him soon after. He talks about &#8220;Stay True,&#8221; his new paean to friendship, music and identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[90,19],"class_list":["post-154993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-books-literature","tag-entertainment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}