After I finished The Rice Sprout Song last week, I moved on to Eileen Chang's Love in a Fallen City (New York Review Books, 2006), a collection of short stories and novellas that take place in Shanghai and Hong Kong in the 1930s and early 1940s.I usually try to read a book … [Read more...]
Triple Ten
Today is the Chicago Marathon. For weeks I've noticed banners flying around Chicago splashed with 10.10.10. The fine print reads Chicago Marathon and Bank of America, the official sponsor.I'm not a runner, but when I lived in the city, I enjoyed watching the runners take … [Read more...]
Congratulations to Liu Xiaobo
I read with teary eyes today that Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize this morning.Liu is the first person from mainland China to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and a writer at that. Almost as soon as the news was announced, though, it was censored in China.I find it sad and … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Rice Sprout Song
Last week I came across a nice article in the NYTimes about Eileen Chang and the writings she left behind at her death. This article seemed especially timely because I was in the middle of reading Chang's novel, The Rice Sprout Song (University of California Press, … [Read more...]
Northwest Orient, 1947
Over the weekend, I took number one son to a lovely bar mitzvah in Minneapolis. It'd been years since I'd flown into Minneapolis, but I still noticed something different about the airport.Northwest Airlines is gone.Living close to one of the busiest international airports … [Read more...]
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