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Mar.08.2013 Fighting Flu. Tapping the Source, Eighty Days Flu season is not over yet! Even if you had the flu shot this season, it has only been effective on 62% of users. Heather Brittany offers up a few ways to keep yourself healthy that you may have overlooked. A FREE screening of the international inspirational film Tapping the Source is...	Feb.01.2013 Immigration Reform: Where Do Asian-Americans Stand? One of the fastest growing immigrant communities in the US are Asians. While Asian Americans voted for President Obama this past election in record numbers, when it comes to the immigration reform it seems that the Latino vote dominates the conversation. Andrew Lam, a Vietnamese-American writer...
Dec.16.2011 How Much of the World Are We Missing? Just at the edge of darkness, where the light of our fire does not penetrate, an elephant thunders by, trumpeting the whole way, a classic illustration of the Doppler Effect, sound that condenses, rises in pitch, crescendos, blows by, drops pitch, recedes. We lift our heads in surprise....	Jul.09.2009 Bright Yellow Sun “Bright Yellow Sun” Of my countrymen I dreamed, All of us looking At each other In different ways Beneath white clouds On a tiny blue planet Rotating around A bright yellow sun. Me, my fellow Americans And all creatures: Laughing, crying, Hurting? And Loving? We spin And the rotation Is felt From...
Oct.01.2008 I Could Write A Great Novel If Only I Had A Story to Tell Okay, I stole this title from Barbara Sher (the Wishcraft lady), who has a book entitled I Could Do Anything If Only I Knew What It Was. I am about to usher myself and a passel of writers and hopefuls through the process of planning and writing and revising a novel. In October, we will plot and...	Oct.01.2008 PRI's The World presents the World Books podcast with Bill Marx. . . and me. Bill Marx of the World Books podcast did a nice interview with me right after my Brooklyn Book Festival reading: http://www.theworld.org/?q=aggregator/sources/61 [Porochista Khakpour's first novel, "Sons and Other Flammable Objects," garnered enthusiastic reviews for its tragi-comic...