The Lounge Chair Interview: 10 Questions with Jeremy Tiang

By Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé

Let’s get down to brass tacks. Why do you write?

It’s my attempt to make sense of the world.

Tell us about your most recent book or writing project. What were you trying to say or achieve with it?

I’ve been putting together a short story collection, It Never Rains On National Day, which will be launched at the Singapore Writers Festival this year. The stories are about Singaporeans overseas and non-Singaporeans in Singapore, and asks how we decide where we belong, and how these boundaries get drawn.