Jay Caspian Kang
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Jay Caspian Kang is a staff writer at The New Yorker and an Emmy-nominated documentary-film director and the author of The Loneliest Americans. Prior to joining The New Yorker, he was an opinion writer for the New York Times, and his work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, “This American Life,” and the New York Times Magazine. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2024 for his New Yorker work. He lives in Northern California with his family.
