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Share Lost Lustre After reading Bill Clegg’s spellbinding memoir, Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, I craved another memoir about New York. And as luck would have it, I won in a GoodReads raffle Josh Karlen’s new memoir, Lost Lustre (Tatra Press, 2010). And that’s what I read last week. Karlen grows up [...] Share King of Masks I feel like I’ve been off the computer for weeks. My husband traveled to Philadelphia for four days last week, including the weekend. In his absence, I went a little crazy with our new Blu-ray machine and its streaming capabilities. I watched half a dozen movies, some I’d seen before, some [...] Share Combination Platter, 1993 Today I watched a movie I hadn’t seen in 17 years. Back when I was single and responsible only for myself, I headed over to the Dupont 5 theater in Washington, DC, after work one afternoon and saw Combination Platter, an indie film about a Chinese restaurant in Flushing, New York. [...] Share My first Mid-Autumn Festival, 1990 Has 20 years really passed since my first Mid-Autumn Festival? Hard to believe. When I moved to Hong Kong for the first time, I knew nothing about this holiday. I clearly remember roaming the open air markets in Tai Po, about twenty minutes south of the China border, and [...] Share Thanking the Moon by Grace Lin Last week Grace Lin’s new picture book, Thanking the Moon: Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival (Knopf, 2010) came out. And just in time, too. On September 22nd, people across Asia and in Chinese communities around the world will gather with their families to celebrate this harvest holiday. Thanking [...] |
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