Monthly Archives: December 2008
December 30th, 2008
In an Asian market in San Mateo, my mother, sister and I stand and get a short talk about American Ginseng from a nervous young Chinese American woman. Beside her are plastic cups full of a pale yellow broth, and … Continue reading
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On the Present Tense
ZILKA: You wrote Edinburgh not only in first person, but also in PRESENT TENSE. I was like, “Wow”–because present tense (like second person) is one of the toughest things to pull off in a long piece, like a novel. Were … Continue reading
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1 Thing About Marriage Equality
I live in a country where you can be straight and get married at the end of a game show after having met just a few weeks before, and be gay and know each other for 20 years and not … Continue reading
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On The Pleasure of Imagining How It Would Be
As a student at the Bennington Summer Writers Workshop in my junior year of college, I remember hearing Blanche Boyd say, If you’re fiction is good enough, they’ll believe it all really happened to you, and if your nonfiction is … Continue reading
Filed under author's own, Korean American, novels, what is right with us, writers, writing
Messenger Bag Contents Also A Guide To My Blog
My friend Jane made up a blog meme and then tagged me. She asked us to take everything out of our bags right when she emailed us, and to put the contents list on our blogs. The bag is a … Continue reading
I Am Either Where You Think I Am, Or, Not
It snowed this morning. It’s the first snow of the year. I woke up and there was the beautiful light off the snow in the kitchen as I came downstairs. I felt released from the fall. I took a break … Continue reading
Filed under blogs, books, fiction, fiction prompts, graphic novels, letters to you, meme, politics, what I am working on, writers, writing, writing exercises
Irma Vep, The Next Generation
From Warren Ellis’s blog, the results of an open call to remake the character of Irma Vep. This one is my favorite, by an up and comer named Daniel Heard:
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