Category Archives: Koreanish
Face Recognition Software Thinks Asians Are Blinking
Up and coming film-maker Alex Myung, a Korean adoptee, made an interesting discovery while taking pictures with his mom:
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“Asian American”
My friend Tayari Jones is featuring 8 Debut Novelists over at her blog, and this week’s writer is Marie Mutsuki Mockett, whose novel, Picking Bones From Ash, I blurbed. Tayari posted an essay of Marie’s struggle to publish. This quote … Continue reading
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Systems Check
On the flight back from Los Angeles last week, it is all about the men who sit next to me. On the flight from LA to DC, my seatmate to my left is a man is headed back from Australia. … Continue reading
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Alexander Chee on Granta.com
John Freeman at Granta invited me to be one of the writers contributing short memoirs of their fathers, over at Granta.com. The web pieces are a supplement to the Fathers issue in the print edition, and it’s a fascinating series, … Continue reading
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January 6, 2009
At the MLA, I meet a man who’s just delivered a paper on my first novel. We met 30 minutes after he finished. I didn’t attend because I didn’t want him to be nervous, and later was told he was … Continue reading
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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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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
‘Foxes’ Preview, Page 1
Teddy O’Connor, my friend and collaborator, has finished page 1 of the graphic interconnected stories (comic?) that we’re doing, called Foxes. He sent this over to me. It’s blank as I’ll be adding the text in later, but this is … Continue reading
An Army of Dancing Cats With Pistols Can Never Be Defeated
This might be my favorite collection of post tags ever. For today’s post, some out-takes from a day of teaching. First up, from a discussion in my graphic novel class of Guy Delisle’s Pyongyang, a North Korean animated children’s show, … Continue reading
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Korean Enough
I teach a class in the novel for three days at the Wesleyan Writer’s Conference, and then drive to New Haven to take the train into New York City Wednesday night, headed to an event co-hosted by Guernica Magazine and … Continue reading
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