Houghton Mifflin is starting to publish this year’s editions of its Best American series (Best American Essays, Best American Sports Writing, etc), and I’m proud to say that my essay, “Keeping Faith,” originally published in the... ...full story at Shanghai Scrap
from Shanghai Scrap on Thu, Sep 25 2008
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American expats in Beijing finally proud to be American »
YouTube video On the roof of the Saddle in Beijing, China, a few hours after learning that Obama was elected president, Americans were finally proud to declare, "I am American!" |
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Pulling up our Sox… » Granite Studio Down 2-1 in the series, and 5-0 in the bottom of 7th in game 3…we need some karmic assurance. I don’t have any, but I do have a link to one of the greatest pieces of sports writing ever: John Updike’s 1960 essay on Ted Williams’... |
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The Mission Post » Shanghai Scrap A quick post to note that Slate has published “Let the God Games Begin,” my overview of the somewhat foiled efforts by American evangelicals to send Christian missionaries to the Olympics. Last few days there’s been quite a bit of good... |
| 10 Oct 08 |
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“Hollywood Chinese” Pinched A Nerve - Racism in Asian-American Cinema » CN Reviews I’m in Austin, Texas ya’ll!!! I’m currently at the Austin Asian-American Film Festival, if ya’ll in the area, come by Saturday for my film’s Texas premier. It is now day two of the AAAFF, and I sit here awake at 7:30am still... |
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Obama’s Shanghai Noon » Shanghai Scrap I joined what I’d estimate to be roughly 300 Americans at Malone’s, a three-story American-style sports bar hung with tens of televisions tuned to CNN. For reasons that weren’t entirely clear to me, the drapes were closed, and so -... |
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