It was almost 25 years to the month that I found myself in a hotel lobby in Danang, Vietnam, surrounded by a couple dozen Vietnamese men and women, the former far outnumbering the latter. A couple of the men were fiddling with a VCR connected to a color TV while the rest of us … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Foreign Affairs
On a recent transatlantic flight, I read Alison Lurie's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Foreign Affairs (Random House, 1984). Although it's been out for more than thirty years, I found it on a daily Amazon deal a while back and thought it looked like something I'd like: complicated … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Year of the Fortune Cookie
I'm always on the lookout for diverse books for my kids, especially my daughter Rachel. She goes through more books each week than my mother, who I thought was the most voracious reader I knew. So I'm always excited when I see a new book by Andrea Cheng, one of my favorite middle … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Paul’s Records
For some reason I've always associated 1970s songs with Hong Kong, especially Kowloon. Maybe it's because my mom's family spent a lot of time there during that decade or because when I walked around Kowloon in the 1990s, it evoked a bygone era.So I was extremely excited to … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Travelers
When I was hiding from the world last week, sick with a weird cold and in bed for three days straight, I managed to read Chris Pavone's new spy novel, The Travelers (Crown, 2016) when I started to feel better.I'd read his first two books and liked them enough to want to read … [Read more...]
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