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Monthly Archives: October 2015

Here, There, and Everywhere

A flurry of October events that has left me a bit discombobulated but ever so satisfied… The month began with a return to the hometown of my adulthood—Chicago.   I’d imagined a homecoming similar to Bette Midler’s in “The Rose”—I would get up to do a reading, start singing “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” and collapse (cue plaintive piano […]

October 21st, 2015Still Life Las Vegas

Asian American Literature Fans

James Sie’s Still Live Las Vegas stands tall alongside a number of other glorious debuts… Sie’s novel is a fascinating hybrid of family dysfunction, graphic narrative, and the traditional bildungsroman.

October 20th, 2015Still Life Las Vegas

LA Review of Books Podcast

Colin Marshall gives an in-depth interview with illustrator Sungyoon Choi and me about working on the novel together.

October 10th, 2015Still Life Las Vegas

Electric Literature— “The Magic Behind the Artifice”

An interview by Heather Scott Partington for Electric Literature.

October 10th, 2015Still Life Las Vegas