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Maxine Wally

Maxine Wally

An Experiment in Distraction Avoidance

The idea to try and focus was born out of an obsession that has taken me over for the past two months: studying the routines of elite…

Jul 17, 2017

An Experiment in Distraction Avoidance

Jul 17, 2017

Maxine Wally

An Unconventional Upbringing

I feel bad for the children I may or may not someday give birth to, because they’ll never know what it’s like to be raised by a Chinese…

May 14, 2017

An Unconventional Upbringing

May 14, 2017

Maxine Wally

The Child Inside

I spoke on the phone the other day with a family friend whom I call Uncle Kim. He is not my uncle by blood. But he is a licensed…

Feb 22, 2017

Feb 22, 2017

Maxine Wally

Nature Calls

I experienced total silence for the first time while in the Adirondack Mountains last weekend — it was an alarming feeling, because it…

Jan 6, 2017

Nature Calls

Jan 6, 2017

Maxine Wally

A Different Planet

Packing my bags — going away To a place where the air is clean

Nov 10, 2016

A Different Planet

Nov 10, 2016

Maxine Wally

Have You Eaten Yet?

My grandmother whom I called poa poa did not demonstrate love through hugs and kisses. She never showered me with physical or verbal…

Jun 24, 2016

Have You Eaten Yet?

Jun 24, 2016

Maxine Wally

Drowning in Hamptons Decadence

We four girls got off a packed train at the East Hampton stop, where no one was waiting for us. We’d just traveled almost three hours from…

Jun 9, 2016

Drowning in Hamptons Decadence

Jun 9, 2016

Maxine Wally

A Childhood Story

I used to beg my dad Stephen to tell me “childhood stories,” anecdotes from his growing up in Brooklyn, New York — because his upbringing…

May 19, 2016

A Childhood Story

May 19, 2016

Maxine Wally

The Silent Dinner With a Hero

Gay Talese said Hunter S. Thompson was a cracker.

May 5, 2016

The Silent Dinner With a Hero

May 5, 2016

Maxine Wally

Live From New York, It’s Humanity!

“The city had beat the pants off me. Whatever it required to get ahead, I didn’t have it. I didn’t leave the city in disgust — I left it…

Apr 22, 2016

Live From New York, It’s Humanity!

Apr 22, 2016

Maxine Wally

Maxine Wally

I’m an arts and culture writer at WWD. My work has been featured in Los Angeles Magazine, The Fader, Fortune, NBC Asian America, Smithsonian Magazine and more.

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