Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: A Casebook (Casebooks in Contemporary Fiction)
Women's Voices for Change (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
This coming Monday, with “Veterans Day Sales” all over the newspapers, most Americans observe Veterans Day with flags and parades, honoring men and women who have gone to war for the [...]
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
punctilious \puhnk-TIL-ee-uhs\ , adjective: Strictly attentive to the details of form in action or conduct; precise; exact in the smallest particulars.. Origin: Punctilious derives from Late Latin punctillum, "a little point," from Latin punctum, "a point," from pungere, "to prick." cocktail weenie A person obsessed with the minutiae of bartending practices and traditions,...
Encountering William Stafford (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
"Every War Has Two Losers" tells the story of how one man, William Stafford (1914-1993), choose to answer the call to war. It is a story of confronting beliefs that swirl around war - Isn't war inevitable? Even necessary? What about the enemy? Stafford refused to fight in World War Two and served four years in camps for conscientious objectors. --from the film's website . On the same day...
At Home With Books (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page . It took me some extra time to get this post together because I made a trip to the local Friends of the Library book sale and came back with three bags of books. My choices included a few impulse buys, so I would love to get your feedback about which books should be at the top of the list to read, or if there are any that you have read and didn't...
Tinfish Editor's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
At the ancient pond a frog plunges into the sound of water (Basho) The last time I taught American literature since 1950 an odd thing happened. The contents of the course and the contents of my life folded together like an accordian. I would teach a book, then seem to enter it, move on to another, and enter that one. The first such incident attended our reading of Catch-22 , by Joseph Heller. That...
This is Writing? (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
Don't know anything today. Began with something and ended with nothing. I just read Maxine Hong Kingston's Hawai'i One Summer (University of Hawai'i Press, 1998) which are great little essays/stories. I love the way she writes, kind of almost like a child discovering things. Beligerant and opinionated and intellectually fierce, but also just a child wondering about stuff. They are beautiful essays...
Tayari's Blog (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
Lorraine Hansberry Documentary Project Originally uploaded by unit2A Writing books won't make you rich. Wow . Who knew. This is pretty funny. As the enty above proves, writers have to learn to laugh at our crazy lives. College Esssay Writing Workshop for NYC girls. Writers conference for NYC grown-ups ! Creepy graphic novel (well, short story) on line. Topic: What not to ask an author at a signing....
KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 02/13/2009
Lamb bones -- Photograph Copyright Kyi May Kaung http://www.poetspath.com/exhibits/asiapac.html Very happy to be "electronically linked" and mentioned on the same page as Thich Nhat Hanh, Kimiko Hahn, Maxine Hong Kingston and All. It is truly true poetry has a life of its own. Kyi May Kaung Feb 12, 2009.
井の中の蛙 (Free subscription) | 02/12/2009
I don’t often get unsolicited books with handwritten notes from the authors, unless I worked with them in some way. What was even more surprising is that the book came to my new office before I was even done unpacking! That’s pretty spiffy service. The book had blurbs from Maxine Hong Kingston and Liza Dalby, [...]
MRod says: (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
Maxine Hong Kingston, 68, speaking at the 2008 National Book Awards ceremony this week remarked on the power of the Internet. After a political piece she wrote earlier this year was rejected by every newspaper she submitted it to, she decided to post it online. All I had to do was type, then click a button [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
A Tribute to Grace Paley Maxine Hong Kingston, Chana Block and Susan Griffin will celebrate the life of the activist and writer at 8 p.m. Thursday at Kanbar Hall, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California St., San Francisco, (415) 292-1233....
Eolake Stobblehouse blog (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
"The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods." -- Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976 Graceful, perhaps, but won't it give young hopefuls the impression that they can do what you do without any heard work? Of course, probably this is a quote not from Ms Kingston herself, but from one of the characters in her book. This means...
Isak (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Wonderful news: The National Book Foundation has chosen Maxine Hong Kingston as this year's winner of the Distinguished Contribution to American Letters award. I'm so pleased: she really is a woman of remarkable wisdom and talent. Her nonfiction books include...
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Maxine Hong Kingston will receive the National Book Foundation’s 2008 Distinguished Contribution award. Jacket Copy has more.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
The author Maxine Hong Kingston has been named the recipient of the 2008 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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