She also held a book release event at the Chinese Culture Center in New York. At the event, she described the process of writing Notes: "If a sense of shame is a good thing from the past, then shamelessness is a bad thing from the present. I wrote this book by starting from the bad thing in the present.
朱天文在新書發表會上暢述自己寫《荒人手記》的歷程：「羞恥心如果是舊的好東西，忝不知恥就是新的壞東西，我從新的壞東西著手，寫出來這本書。