Project · Volume one

Searing Stories

Searing Stories brings a guest to the table for a home cooked meal, a recorded conversation, and an editorial feature shaped through writing and photography.

Form
Magazine and web series
Period
2026 to present
A candlelit meal being served for Searing Stories

The project

Each issue starts in a domestic setting. The guest arrives for dinner, the conversation unfolds around the meal, and the final feature keeps the detail and ease of an evening shared in person.

Volume one opened with Felipe Hoffa in Art Machine, a conversation about film, improv, technology and the judgments involved in making things.

At a glance

Format
Online magazine and web series
Current volume
Volume one
First guest
Felipe Hoffa

Credits

Co host, photographer, editor
Will Chai
Co host, head chef
Edward Gao
Will Chai and Edward Gao, the hosts of Searing Stories

Let’s go do something.

I’m open to films, useful tools, curious collaborations, and work with a good story inside it.

me@willchai.com