Monthly Archives: November 2008
The 11th Annual Asian American Literary Awards, Honoring BD Wong and Henry David Hwang
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City is having their 11th Annual Literary Awards. This year’s event features a public conversation between B.D. Wong and Henry David Hwang, and Oskar Eustis, the Artistic Director of the Public Theater, … Continue reading
Filed under books, current events, fiction, Korean American, writers, writing
Dead Magazines, Undead Language
At the airport after the CLMP blogging panel, as I wait for my flight to my sister’s for the holidays, in the magazine stands, I see newly dead magazines: Men’s Vogue and Radar. I pay quietly for my Us Weekly … Continue reading
Books and Blogging: Luc Sante, Ed Park, Emily Gould, Marie Mockett And Alexander Chee At The LWC of the CLMP
This Saturday I’ll be on a panel on books and blogging at the CLMP’s Literary Writers’ Conference, with Luc Sante, Ed Park and Emily Gould, and moderated by Marie Mockett. If I’m exhausted and feeling like my life belongs to … Continue reading
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Some Stupid People Lose, A Few Good People Win, World Equally Unfair To All
E.D. Hill, who coined the term “terrorist fist jab” in describing something that happens on thousands of basketball courts across the country every day, has not been renewed by Fox. Nationally known adulterer Newt Gingrich wants to protect marriage, because … Continue reading
Filed under what is right with us, what is wrong with us
Short Moment Of Existential Truth From A Student’s Reading Response
I also liked the characters in the story. Though none of them were very likeable as people, they created an interesting dynamic when thrown together.
Home Again
On the plane to Paris, I read articles about a new show coming to HBO, called Americatown. It imagines a future when Chinatown-style American ghettoes have sprung up all over the world, as Americans leave, looking for greater opportunity elsewhere. … Continue reading
Filed under letters from away, letters to you, Uncategorized
How I Will Always Remember November 6th
Waking up that morning, it was like I imagined it had to be for the villagers in Middle Earth, the day after the ring was thrown into the lake of fire and Mordor crumbled. I say November 6th because that’s … Continue reading
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Political Memory
My mother was a proponent of the first returnable bottle bill in Maine. I remember her putting me out in the parking lot at our local supermarket with bumper stickers and telling me to put them on people’s cars. What … Continue reading
Remember When Rush Wanted To Protect You From Huckabee’s Class Warfare? Those Were The Days.
Before Rush accused Obama of running using ‘class warfare’, and saying that he intended to raise your taxes, he accused Republican and fiscal conservative Mike Huckabee. In January. Of both. Gail Collins on the election: “Our two-year presidential campaign now … Continue reading
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