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Young Literati Salon featuring Chris Duffy in conversation with Xuan Juliana Wang

Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Time: 6:30pm
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Young Literati Salon featuring Chris Duffy in conversation with Xuan Juliana Wang

6:30pm – Bites and libations
7pm – Remarks and conversation

YL Members are invited to a Salon featuring Chris Duffy, award-winning comedian, television writer, and author of the recently published Humor Me: How Laughing Can Make You Present, Creative, Connected, and Happy. In conversation with Xuan Juliana Wang, acclaimed writer of Home Remedies and English professor at UCLA, Duffy will share more about his hilarious debut described by Kirkus Reviews as “a genial, gentle reminder not to take life quite so seriously.”

Enjoy bites, drinks, and a laugh with your Young Literati community.

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Chris Duffy

Chris Duffy is an award-winning comedian, television writer, and radio/podcast host. Chris currently hosts the hit podcast How to Be a Better Human. You can watch his comedic TED talk, “How to find laughter anywhere” online. He has appeared on Good Morning America, ABC News, NPR, and National Geographic Explorer. Chris wrote for both seasons of Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas on HBO, executive produced by John Oliver. He’s the creator/host of the streaming game show Wrong Answers Only, where three comedians try to understand what a leading scientist does all day, in partnership with LabX at the National Academy of Sciences. Chris is both a former fifth grade teacher and a former fifth grade student. 

Xuan Juliana Wang

Xuan Juliana Wang is the author of the short story collection Home Remedies, which received the California Book Award for First Fiction and was a New York Public Library Young Lions and PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize finalist. She is an assistant professor of English at UCLA.

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