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"Wandering with Hometown" is a new collection of essays by writer Lin Donglin, which tells the writer's sensory memory of his hometown. Everyone is far away from their hometown, either in space or time, and each of us has become a stranger. However, the sensory memory of our hometown will never fade away. We can never forget the food memories of our childhood, and we cannot shake off the identity of our hometown in our bones, even though we have been enemies of our hometown throughout our lives. The writer re-understood his hometown, wrote about his hometown, and returned to his hometown in a literary way, and proposed a way to reconcile the foreign land and his hometown.

This manuscript is a collection of non-fiction + interviews, that is, the author Lin Donglin's non-fiction text follows seven famous poets (Zhang Zhihao, Yang Li, Zang Di, Lan Lan, Yu Nu, Chen Xianfa, Lei Pingyang) who revisited their hometown, as well as Lin Donglin's long interviews with the seven poets. Revisiting one's hometown includes a realistic return to one's hometown, as well as a spiritual return to one's hometown. The seven poets were all born in the 1960s. This generation has generally experienced themes such as leaving and running away, which coincides with the great changes in contemporary China over the past thirty or forty years. During this change, why poets became poets and what the hometown means in reality, that is, at the spiritual level, are the key issues in the interviews in this book. At the same time, the seven poets have in-depth elaborations and unique expressions on professional topics such as personal poetic paths, creative experiences, and new poetry aesthetics.

This book is Lin Donglin's latest collection of short stories, including "Going to Handan", "Ham", "Spaceship", "Asian Elephant", "Companion with Deer", "Tin Wedding", "Long Liang Chai", etc. The novel gives shape to the ordinary by describing the stories of ordinary people, among trivial matters and trivial matters. An unsuccessful literary young man from Beijing, a writer who went to the funeral with his wife's ex-husband, a data analyst who was trapped in trivial family matters and got into a car accident... The author shuttles among all kinds of people, and dives under the calm sea of ​​all living beings, surging with the calm and powerless essence of life.

What I write about is not losers or people struggling in adversity, but people walking towards me in the streets and alleys, people who are calm on the surface but turbulent on the inside. --Lin Donglin. This is the first collection of short stories by young writer Lin Donglin. It contains 10 short stories carefully written in recent years, covering all aspects of contemporary daily life such as unemployment, poverty, marriage, family, infidelity, urban and rural areas, college entrance examinations, etc. Among countless people, crisis is like a fish swimming in the lower parts of a typical Chinese city, forming a small vortex of dilemma around every ordinary person. It swam to Hua'anli - an urban village composed of low shantytowns and hundreds of handshake buildings - "Hua'anli". It swam to the Alley of the Martyrs - a group of alleys about to be demolished that harbored smoke shops, prostitutes and gangsters - "Alley of the Martyrs". It meets Mr. Ivory Clam - a middle-aged man who has sunk to the bottom of his life and chews crystal clear clam meat with Saigon beer - "Mr. Ivory Clam". It stares down indifferently - a woman trapped in a cellar by a rapist who loses contact with the outside world - "Someone Is Coming". As the New Year approaches, it targets a derailed and disqualified father - he crashes into the guardrail on the right side of the highway while listening to John Cage's Bacchanale, and the snow falls silently - "New Year". And at a certain moment, its eyes also tend to be gentle - a father and son sit in a field on the top floor of the city and watch the sunset - "Return to No Plan"... Crisis always comes cunningly and frankly, but there is no shortage of strategies to mediate and fight against it in daily life. In these stories, you and the characters in the novels mirror each other, and then shatter each other, leaving behind a shimmering spectacle.

About literature and art, youth, three views, years, passion, road and words - written for all young people who are struggling to grow old.