Hsiu Chuan Lee, Juyan Zhang, Yuanyuan Feng, Wing Tek Lum, Shan Te-hsing (all from Taiwan or China)
Wing Tek Lum and Frank Chin
Wing Tek autographing for Juyan Zhang
Panel at the Association for Asian American Studies. Gary Pak, Wing Tek Lum, and Amalia Bueno, listening to Stephen Sumida
Wing Tek autographing for Hsiu Chuan Lee, with Juyan Zhang, Frank Abe, Juliet Kono looking on.
Bamboo Ridge Press recently made the list of fifty turning points in Hawaiʻi's history since statehood.
Following the recent and unfortunate news that the Honolulu Weekly would be shutting its doors, I was tempted to write a post on the [local] book industry, something I’ve been mulling over since maybe two years ago when readers and writers found empty square-footage where their Borders used to be. I intentionally use the pronoun…
In her essay on creative writing pedagogy, ‘WRIT101: Ethics of Representation for Creative Writers’, Shady Cosgrove, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at University of Wollongong, ponders the question: “…should creative writers be expected to study the ethical implications of their craft?” (Cosgrove 134). She argues that creative writers, specifically fiction writers, have often “escaped” scrutiny…