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...become very excited. And I've never seen Al go very far off course. He's a pretty steady pilot." He had to be, considering that he and Mood-swing Sid spent nine months circling the globe for the series of Holiday magazine articles that became the book "Westward, Ha!" Perelman, in a paean to his pal, described Hirschfeld as "a pair of liquid brown eyes, delicately rimmed in red, of an innocence to charm the heart of the fiercest aborigine, and a beard which could engulf everything from a tsetse fly to a Sumatra tiger. In short, a remarkable...
...this flowering been perceived by those left behind in China? Perhaps it hasn't even been noticed. Four years after U.S.-based Ha Jin won a National Book Award and three years after France-based Gao Xingjian was honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature, the work of these two internationally hailed Chinese authors is still largely unseen inside China. Sadly, the China-born authors now emerging on the world's literary stage remain largely unknown inside their native country. Some are still banned...
...Chinese emigre authors who received advanced education in the West are more likely to write in English. Both Ha Jin and Jung Chang hold doctorates from Western universities, and Da Chen, author of Colors of the Mountain, received a law degree from Columbia University. Anchee Min completed a master's in fine arts at the Art Institute of Chicago...
...memoir instead of as fiction. The commercial success of Nien Cheng's Life and Death in Shanghai, Jung Chang's Wild Swans and Adeline Yeh Mah's Falling Leaves had proved that memoirs about China sell. When I refused to change categories, I was turned down. But when Ha Jin's novel Waiting became a best-seller in the U.S., my luck changed. In fact, Pantheon Books, the same New York publisher that brought out Waiting, published Lili...
...exclaimed as he attempted to open the front door to Lowell by sticking his pinky finger in the card swipe slot post-initiation. “Do you like my TIE?” he yelled. “It’s turquoise TOO! HA!” He then yakked on the card swipe machine, rendering it useless and yak-encrusted...