Posted by: chyma on: November 9, 2008
Once I spotted in the Urban Kvetch —a front corner in HEEB mag— this small criticism on Diablo Cody, I am having a hard time getting my mind off from her, for I can understand where the article was coming from. I actually cracked up on it, though I am in entirely favor of Cody. So I [...]
Posted by: chyma on: October 18, 2008
I was in Housing Works last night for a panel discussion held by Columbia Univ’s lit mag. I recognized some authors in the crowd such as Tao Lin, who was in a black hoodie that said Choke Victim on the back. I did not recognize him at all except that he was one of a few racial minorities among all [...]
Posted by: chyma on: September 8, 2008
I was reading the second book of Molly Jong-Fast, the daughter of Erica Jong. This book, originally titled The Sex Doctors in the Basement, and retitled to Girl, Maladjusted in its paperback rendition, was actually hilarious. I flipped through her first novel that was written before she went to MFA in Bennington, and thought it was [...]
Posted by: chyma on: September 4, 2008
So far, I have encountered different kinds of people. One of them are those who, I’d phrase, are obsessed with Phillip Roth. It might be a generational interest, or Jewish one. In either case, it is enough to know Roth is the type of the author who makes the readers feel like literally worshipping him. I met [...]
Posted by: chyma on: August 16, 2008
I finally got a long meditated but unaccomplished mission out of my way so I feel very complete. The mission was to finish Courtney Eldridge’s collection Unkempt, including “The Former World Record Holder Settles Down,” which was marked as one of a few literally works that were inspired by Annabelle Chong’s world record of having intercourse with 211 men [...]
Posted by: chyma on: August 9, 2008
http://www.venuszine.com/articles/art_and_culture/reads/748/dao_strom
I also wanted to talk to you about how their Vietnamese backgrounds shape these different women and about their relationships with men. Also about how these women are very conscious of how they look to others. Particularly how Mary, in The Gentle Order of Boys and Girls, for example, negotiates the world differently from Leena, [...]
Posted by: chyma on: June 22, 2008
I had been prepared enough, so I was not offended, unlike other Asian American who are relatively political conscious but not enough to use the material to theorize a bit deeper.
One thing that instantly occurred to me was how this movie resembled The Quiet American. Once you recognized it, you can’t really tear yourself off from the [...]
Posted by: chyma on: June 1, 2008
http://www.muslimgirlworld.com/mgmag/
Posted by: chyma on: May 29, 2008
http://www.bookslut.com/features/2007_05_011092.php
The movie Personal Velocity was based on a collection of short sorties of the same title. I remember that I read the book without knowing why it was so hyped up. Later, though, I found out that the author Rebecca Miller was Ms. Miller, the daughter of Arthur Miller, and not only that, be prepared, her husband [...]
Posted by: chyma on: May 15, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooker_with_a_heart_of_gold
Come to think of it, I never read the Suzie Wong novel nor saw the Hollywood classic. Isn’t it a shame, though? There was no copy available in any libraries around. I might need to order a copy from amazon eventually.
While I was on the search for Suzie Wong, by the way, I happened to hit the above [...]
