When I lived in Hong Kong, the Soho neighborhood was just getting off the ground. I remember going to a Lebanese restaurant there in the fall of 1996 with a group of friends. Around that time about half a dozen new restaurants had popped up and my friends were starting to hang … [Read more...]
Bottonhole Bookbinding
Today my niece and I had the best time attending a bookbinding class at Bari Zaki Studio in Chicago. Some months ago I blogged about a bookbinding notebook someone had given to Bari as a gift. She posted this notebook on Instagram and I immediately recognized it as my late … [Read more...]
Signs of the times: Hong Kong in the 90s
While the world is falling apart, I think back to an August afternoon many years ago when I flew off to Hong Kong during another global crisis: Gulf War I. I had never been to Hong Kong before, but was about to spend my junior year of college there and my flight was delayed eight … [Read more...]
The Paris Apartment
This is a long time coming, but friends and family have asked to see photos of the apartment in Paris where I stayed last month. It seems like a lifetime ago, maybe because I've been mostly on the road this summer. I just sent my agent 85,000 words of my revised manuscript for … [Read more...]
The non-definitive Handover book list
Today marks the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's Handover from Great Britain to China. While few have anything to celebrate and it's no more than a morose milestone, I thought I'd put together a list of books that people were reading in Hong Kong 20 years ago as the Handover … [Read more...]
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