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...]
Happy National Day
Today marks the 61st anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.Happy National Day!Not to be confused with Double 10, Taiwan's national day, October 1st is celebrated across China and in Chinatowns around the world.Looking back at 61 years of … [Read more...]
Book of the week–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 … [Read more...]
Weekend splurge
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 … [Read more...]
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