Writer-in-residence turns new chapter in life

The author of Grey Stories, The Bird Saw Me and A Perfect Crime (available in English) tells China Daily his experience as the writer-in-residence at the Owspace bookstore.

In the last two weeks of March, I took the metro, transferring three times, to travel from my home in southern Beijing to reach Owspace in Huajiadi on the other side of the city. I stayed in the bookstore from 11 am to 5 pm as a writer at large in the store.

Iwas invited by the bookstore to be the writer-in-residence, partly because I am familiar with the people there because I often go to buy books and have done some book launches in Owspace in recent years, and partly because, as an unemployed freelance writer, I have plenty of time.