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–– Xu Xi is interviewed by Hyphen: Asian American Unabridged and talks about her new novel, Habit of a Foreign Sky. Read the article. – – Xu Xi’s creative non-fiction was published in issue #6 of Cha. \–
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– Read Kristine Ong Muslim’s “Zero’s Bride” and “Prime Time” and Louie Crew’s “To Comprehend the Nectar” in the new issue of Cricket Online Review. – – Kristine Ong Muslim’s poetry was published in issue #9 of Cha. Three poems by Louie…
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Picture courtesy of JP. WRITTEN IN SNOW –by t We extinguished two glasses of port,drained the lamp,transfigured from dressed to undressed. Both…
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On 2nd December, 2009, I posted these Banksy images on my previous blog: Responses: [Click image to enlarge] Recently, I watched Exit Through the Gift Shop. It’s a reasonably enjoyable film, and one of the highlights, for me, is this counterfeited tenner: –
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– BallroomA new Book by Lyn Lifshin Price: $9.00 Paperback: 286 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 1596611421 ISBN-13: 978-1596611429 Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 4.9 x 0.9 inches Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces Publisher: March Street Press 3413 Wilshire Dr Greensboro NC 27408 Learn…
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–From the Kubrick Poetry website: 時間 Time：2010/12/26 (Sun) 5:00pm-6:00pm 地點 Venue: 油麻地 Kubrick (next to Broadway Cinemathèque, 3 Public Square St.) 主持 Moderators：Polly Ho, Adam Cheung, Florence Ng, Wong Wai Yim 詩人來賓 Guest Poet：Eddie Tay Born in Singapore, Eddie Tay…
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This post was originally written on 15th February, 2009. 妹妹說我的頭像雞蛋 My favourite scarf is long, long enough to be an afternoon blanket for two babies, and the remaining length draping all over the floor. I only wear it when I…
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I love this picture taken by the graphomaniac bookworm; it is so serene, so mysterious. “Some street in Belfast. I don’t know the name. I just know that it was during the Easter break, in 2004, and that I was…
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Aaron Johnson is handsome (and young!). We watched Sam Taylor-Wood’s Nowhere Boy, a film about the young John Lennon, played rather convincingly, I must say, by Aaron Johnson. However, he is certainly not as good as Kristin Scott Thomas, who…
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Langham Place The translator sent me this picture – I like how the daylight comes through the squared windows. ––
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– Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for its November 2011 issue (Issue #15). Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines can be found here. Deadline: 15 September, 2011.…
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UPDATED in January 2011: Measurements: Sketches from Hong Kong is now available from Paddyfield. –– Measurements: Sketches from Hong KongEds. Melanie Ho & Simon OvertonHong Kong Writers Circle – We are very happy to say that Hong Kong Writers Circle‘s…
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The answer can be found in Doubt, the 2008 film adaptation of the John Patrick Shanley’s stage play Doubt: A Parable, which won a Pulitzer Prize: A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew…
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In Fall 2008, Stephen McLaughlin and Jim Carpenter edited an anthology (3785 pages) featuring 3164 poets. McLaughlin and Carpenter did not ask any of the writers for permission to print their works. In fact, the poems attributed to the individual…
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– Rumjhum Biswas’s poem “List of Dos and Don’ts for the School Reunion” is now featured at Every Day Poets. Read it here. – – Rumjhum Biswas’s poem “Bones” was published in issue #12 of Cha. The piece has been nominated for…
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Love & Other Drugs – Last night we went to watch Love & Other Drugs in Covent Garden. Thank you, E, for the generosity! On the film: Anne, you are no Kate Winslet or Penelope Cruz (with reference to her own…
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The historian sent me this picture and I love it, for obvious reasons.
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= Ocean Vuong will be doing a live reading and interview via The Blood-Jet Writing Hour this Wednesday at 1PM Eastern time. The live broadcast is available for free here and you can listen to the archived segment after it…
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The official DC Books webpage for Greg Santos’s The Emperor’s Sofa is now up, with online ordering possibilities. Check out the page here. – – Greg Santos’s poetry was published in issue #10 of Cha. – –
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“How They Met Themselves” (1860-64) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Umberto Eco once wrote, ‘Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us, because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion.’ But where…
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Stonehenge, pictured by a member of the family in August, 2010. Stonehenge, in virtue of the simplicity of its plan, and its good preservation, is as if new and recent; and, a thousand years hence, men will thank this age…
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– This morning, the receptionist walked past this park near Festival Walk, pondering: ‘Is this Hong Kong?’ I responded: ‘好日本.’– ––
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– Bob Bradshaw’s new poem “Twin Sisters, Separated at 2” is now published in the début issue of TRIAGE: A Journal of Excellent Poetry. Read the poem here. ––Read Bob Bradshaw’s Cha profile.––
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– Three poems by Winnie Chau are now published in Issue #13 of The Delinquent. The poems are “the finger-biting girl” (pp.14-15), “two negatives make a negative” (p. 15) and “sorry, i googled you” (pp. 16-19). You can purchase a…
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This post was originally written on 5th July, 2009. – Yesterday we spent an evening in Islington. It was a beautiful day and we sat by Regent’s Canal and had a drink from the Narrow Boat Pub (Beer in a…
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A woman is sitting at home alone, one Saturday morning just before midday, when, unexpectedly, a knock comes at the door. On opening the door she finds, much to her surprise, an old friend whom she has not seen for…
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Also read this post. Click image to enlarge.
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This morning, my friend sent me this picture, a close-up of a phone booth by the river. – –
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Robert Raymer: “… after reading two of my stories, “Neighbours” from my website and “On Fridays” in Cha.” Read what is happening here. Robert Raymer’s short story “On Fridays” was published in Issue #12 of Cha. – ––
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“In the 1950s, art historian Kenneth Clark distinguished between the terms ‘nude’ and ‘naked’. For him, ‘nakedness’ implies discomfort and embarrassment. Nudity meant not ‘a huddled and defenceless body, but … a balanced, prosperous and confident body: the body re-formed’.…
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