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Robert Raymer’s Tropical Affairs is reviewed in Expatriate Lifestyle (February 2010). Go to Robert’s blog and click the image to enlarge and read the review.––Robert Raymer’s short story “On Fridays” was published in Issue #12 of Cha.––
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This post was originally written on 9th September, 2009. Foyles Bookstore, London Tonight we saw John Banville (who is also Benjamin Black) at a free author’s talk organised by the Foyles Bookstore. In the event, Banville discussed his latest novel,…
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Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s sequence of poems “-ING: Smoking, Haunting, Prewriting” is now published in Issue #43 (November/December 2010) of The Scrambler. – – Read Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. – –
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Congratulations to W.F. Lantry, who won the 2010 International Poetry for Peace Prize with his poem “Kiste”. From W.F.’s website: (Jerusalem, Israel) – W.F. Lantry of Washington, DC won the 2010 International Poetry for Peace Prize sponsored by the Lindberg…
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I was gripped from the opening seconds of Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker about an elite Army bomb squad whose main job is to defuse roadside bombs. The film uses suspense masterfully to suggest the tension and fear of the…
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– Henry W. Leung, reviewer for Lantern Review, has written a review of Eddie Tay’s latest collection of poetry The Mental Life of Cities. You can read the review here. Henry also wrote a review of the current edition of…
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“It was on account of these things that mamma got her for such low pay, really for nothing: so much, one day when Mrs. Wix had accompanied her into the drawing-room and left her, the child heard one of the…
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– – Nabina Das and Steve Wing have new works published in the Winter 2010 issue of Full of Crow. Read Nabna’s “A Face Like Ours”, “Airborne, Words Can Sing” and “Utterance From the Tongue of an Urn” and view…
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Baozi Inn, ChinatownSaturday 4th Decemer, 2010, 12:30pm
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–The Ghost is based on the novel by Robert Harris of the same title. We thought it was a fine old-fashioned thriller; it reminded one of both Hitchcock and the paranoid thrillers of the 1970s. Directed by Roman Polanski, the…
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Seen at the South Kensington tube station on a Saturday afternoon
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From their website: Times Are Tough; Talk Is Cheap At a recent poetry reading, a poet gave a five-minute introduction to a haiku. Absurdities not being lost on us, we began generating our own haiku responses. We invite you to…
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Leung Ping-Kwan’s amblings will be launched in Macau on 18th December, 2010. Learn more about the launch here. ––Leung Ping-Kwan’s poetry was published in issue #1 of Cha.––
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Two new books by Christopher (Kit) Kelen, To the Single Man’s Hut and China Years, will be launched in Macau on 18th December, 2010. Learn more about the launch here. – – Christopher (Kit) Kelen’s poetry was published in issue #1 of…
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ASM Prize for Creative Writing 2010 ASM (The Association of Stories in Macao) is pleased to announce its annual prize for Creative Writing. Entries will be accepted in the following areas: – short fiction (up to 5,000 words) – poetry (a suite…
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Association of Stories in Macao 澳門故事協會 ASM TO LAUNCH 13 NEW BOOKS ON SATURDAY DECEMBER 18 ASM’s 2010 Booklaunch to be held at CCI (Creative Macau) Macau Cultural Centre 4.30 pm Saturday 18th December Guest of Honour The distinguished Hong…
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James Wood (2008) answers: The kind of metaphor I most delight in […] estranges and then instantly connects, and in doing the latter so well, hides the former. The result is a tiny shock of surprise, followed by a feeling…
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– Lyn Lifshin’s poem “Alive Like A Loaded Gun” is now published in Negative Suck. Read it here. – –– Lyn Lifshin’s poems were published in issue 4 and issue 10 of Cha – –
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Donna Pucciani’s poem “Your Hand” is published in issue #153 of Orbit. Learn more about the new issue on the publication’s Facebook page.––Donna Pucciani’s poem “Lunar Eclipse” was published in issue #9 of Cha and discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea.––
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–Ian McEwan (2001) answers: [I]t was the visual impression of an even deeper darkness beyond the light that drew them in. Even though they might be eaten, they had to obey the instinct that made them seek out the darkest…
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– Nikesh Murali’s “The Prostitute” is reprinted in The Editor’s Choice Contemporary Short Stories in Indian English. – – Nikesh Murali’s fiction was published in issue #8 of Cha. – –
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Outside lands contiguous with China, emigration has never been promoted by the Chinese state. The spread of Chinese cooking around the world has therefore been colonial but not imperial, carried by peaceful migrants in self-imposed “economic exile.” At least, this…
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= Issue #47 of Concelebratory Shoehorn Review (editor: Maurice Oliver) now online. Read poetry by Russell Endo, Kelley White, L. Ward Abel, Forrest Hamer, Lee Upton, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Christine Hamm, and Cha contributor Arlene Ang. Also included in this issue is…
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Congratulations to Luisa A. Igloria whose poem “Paradise” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Asia Writes. Learn more about AW‘s nominations here. – – Luisa A. Igloria’s poetry was published in issue #2 and issue #8 of Cha. – –
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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto answers: For almost uniquely, in the repertoire of modern Western cuisine, the oyster is eaten uncooked and unkilled. It is the nearest thing we have to “natural” food—the only dish which deserves to be called “au naturel” without…
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– Greg Santos has joined the editorial team of the Paris-based Upstairs at Duroc and the publication is now calling for submissions for its thirteenth issue. Visit Greg’s blog to learn more how to submit works. – Greg Santos’s poetry was…
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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…
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–Loved The Mills Brothers’ version of “You Always Hurt the One You Love”. See Jonathan’s post about the film here. –
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– 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. – –
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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…
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