Susan Hwang tells stories and makes things that are usually collapsible, like songs and times.  Her instruments take up space (accordion, Janggu—traditional Korean drum, piano) but other physical objects she can’t play, wear or eat intimidate her.  She founded the Bushwick Book Club in 2009 when she was a new employee at Steve Trimboli’s pioneering Bushwick venue, Goodbye Blue Monday.  She continues to manage, curate, host and perform new songs for BBC in addition to recording and touring with Lusterlit, her musical duo with songwriter/producer Charlie Nieland.  They refuse to play anything but songs about books.

In addition to her experience recording and touring with groups like cabaret-pop power trio, The Debutante Hour; stoner/math rock band, Murderizer; and neo-soul band Soozee Hwang and The Relastics, she's hosted and produced her own TV variety talk show—The La La La Show— broadcast on Manhattan Neighborhood Network.   Susan plays accordions because they are pretty and lighter than pianos (barely).  She plays drums because it's healthy for a girl to hit things.

Susan insists that from the beginning, Bushwick Book Club has always been a sheer hedonistic pleasure—something that should probably be done alone, naked in a closet.  This would be impractical for so many reasons, but it illustrates the amount of pleasure she receives from the BBC shows—indecent, bordering obscene.  She finds endless satisfaction in the surprise and delight of witnessing the infinite variety of creativity from all the contributors in each show.  Speaking of witnessing, she explains "My mom's a Jehovah's Witness, so it means I grew up with a healthy skepticism about the accepted ways people do things, but it also means I grew up with no Christmas.  I feel like Bushwick Book Club is more than making up for a childhood of no Christmases by giving me the surprise and delight of unwrapping the gift of each new book-inspired creation. Every one is something you couldn't have guessed or have dreamed of, and it will move you and bring your thoughts and experience to places you haven't gone before.  What better gift is that?  If that's not Christmas, I don't know what is."

When she began Bushwick Book Club in 2009, she wasn't sure if songwriters would be interested in the challenge of writing from designated source material on a deadline.  It turns out they will, and they’ll like it.  So will the audience and readers all over the world.  It's one of her favorite instances of being completely incorrect ever (and there are many).