• Montaigne

    Who doesn’t like Montaigne (1533-1592), the very man who invented the essay genre? His writings are fun, wise, philosophical, sometimes provocative. He says these things: “If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they…

  • You always hurt the one you love

    –Loved The Mills Brothers’ version of “You Always Hurt the One You Love”. See Jonathan’s post about the film here. –

  • Nicholas Y. B. Wong in Diverse Voices Quarterly

    – Nicholas Y. B. Wong’s “The Head” (p. 49) is now published in Diverse Voices Quarterly. You can download the phf of the issue here. – – Read Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. – –

  • A conversation heard

    A CONVERSATION HEARD in October 2007. YANG: He said something about lusting after. BURDETTE: Lusting over. Lusting after is more the nostalgia of bad sex. Nostalgia for bad sex. YANG: Do you think he knew? That I would hear? That…

  • sleep furiously

    –The Welsh documentary sleep furiously1 by Gideon Koppel records a year of life in Trefeurig, a small farming community in Wales. The film does not have an obvious structure or narrative. But in its formless way, it documents the slow…

  • Solidarity in Literature without Borders: 2010 Philippine PEN Congress

    Philippine Center of International PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Essayists, Novelists) presents Solidarity in Literature without Borders: 2010 Philippine PEN Congress December 4-5, 2010 Celebrity Ballroom, Montebello Villa Hotel, Cebu City, Philippines The programme is here [PDF]. – –

  • Cha contributors at Hyderabad Literary Festival 2010

    Cha contributors Rumjhum Biswas, Anindita Sengupta and Sridala Swami will be appearing at the Hyderabad Literary Festival 2010, a 3-day multi-lingual event to be held in Hyderabad on Dec 10-12, 2010. Learn more about the festival here.  – – Rumjhum Biswas’s…

  • Jee Leong Koh’s poem nominated for a Pushcart Prize

    Congratulations to Jee Leong Koh — his poem “Childhood Punishments” has been nominated by The Shit Creek Review for a Pushcart Prize. Read the poem here. ––Jee Leong Koh’s poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.––

  • An interview with Melody Gee

    – An interview with Melody S. Gee by Kenny Tanemura is published in Sycamore Review.earlier this month (4th November, 2010) Read “Building the book & avoiding the unavoidable: An interview with Melody Gee” here. – – Melody S. Gee’s poem “Giving”…

  • You are erased

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