Last April, an English translation of Notes of a Desolate Man was published in the US, and Chu was invited to a number of key centers in the US for the study of contemporary Chinese literature (including the University of Colorado, Harvard, Columbia, and UCLA) to hold seminars or lecture.
去年四月，《荒人手記》英譯本在美國出版，朱天文應邀到美國科羅拉多大學、哈佛大學、洛杉磯加州大學、哥倫比亞大學等現代中國文學重鎮參加座談、演講，並在紐約中華文化中心舉行新書發表會。