Awkwafina taught me a magic trick, and no, I’m not going to tell you how it works.
Mostly because I can’t tell you how it works, because this interview took place this spring, when the world was on the brink of maybe, possibly, kind of reopening, when we still couldn’t be in the same room together, and honestly, it is damn impossible to learn magic over Zoom.
I mean, I could attempt to describe it (and tell you that it involved some tape and a pair of scissors and tarot cards), but we’d all be better off imagining an alternate reality instead: that I was hanging out at a party with Nora Lum, the 33-year-old comedian, actor, rapper, and writer from Queens, New York, who, as the story goes, gave…
