Andrew Q Lam's Writings
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Article
Aug.27.2010
New America Media
Editor's Note: An author reflects on a decision years ago to choose a creative writing program on his path to becoming a writer, defying deeply-held cultural values of filial piety.
One summer afternoon many years ago, I stole home and robbed my parents of their American Dream. I wasn’t going to be a doctor, after all. I was going to study creative writing.
When...
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Article
May.03.2010
America.gov
By Andrew Lam
Special Correspondent
San Francisco — Nguyen Qui Duc, a Vietnamese refugee who became an American radio host and the author of the memoir Where the Ashes Are, has found yet another incarnation in his mid-50s: Bar owner and art curator in Hanoi, Vietnam. Why would he come back to the country from which he once fled? “Home is where there’s a sense of...
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Article
Dec.23.2009
New America Media
New America Media, Commentary, Andrew Lam, Posted: Dec 27, 2009
Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time in a village full of ninjas there lived an orphan named Naruto. When he was born, the chief of the village sealed a powerful and malevolent spirit of a nine-tailed fox inside thee child’s belly. Whenever Naruto loses control of his emotions, the fox...
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Article
Jul.05.2009
My Teacher, My Friend
My Teacher, My Friend
America.gov, Commentary, Andrew Lam, Posted: Jul 05, 2009
San Francisco -- The man who stood at the entrance to my new world passed away recently, and though I hadn’t seen him in more than three decades, the news of his demise left me unexpectedly bereft. I remember a warm voice, expressive eyes, and bushy eyebrows that wiggled comically...
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Article
May.16.2009
New America Media
De la philosophie à la cuisine, la culture asiatique influence les Américains
La popularité du barbecue coréen appelé Kogi n'est qu'un des nombreux exemples de l'influence de la culture asiatique aux États-Unis.
Par Andrew LamCorrespondant
San Francisco - Si vous n'avez pas goûté un taco coréen, connu sous le nom de kogi, il vous faut le faire dès que...
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Article
May.14.2009
America.gov
Vietnam-born American writer Andrew Lam is an editor with New America Media. He recently published the book Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora.
San Francisco — If you haven’t tasted a Korean barbecue short-rib taco, popularly known as the kogi, you must. Chased with chili salsa, kimchi and crushed sesame seeds, the Kogi is an invention so...
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Short Story
May.10.2009
Asia Literary Review
An Excerpt from my short story: "Close to the Bones." It'll be published in Hong Kong's Asia Literary Journal.
This is our European vacation: our last as a family unit. I don’t remember much about getting to Waterloo, except that the countryside was streaked and blurred, light over darker green under a dismal grey sky. Father drove; I had the map;...
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Short Story
Apr.25.2009
Transfer magazine
After a stormy flight back from Saigon, where we had been visiting sick relatives, our Cessna landed with a thud on the muddy landing strip of the Cam Ly airport. Outside, a curtain of rain moved softly across the smoky gray sky, welcoming us back to this high plateau of persistent fog and whispering pine forests. The plane ran swiftly toward the control tower...
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Short Story
Mar.27.2009
Once Upon A Dream: The Vietnamese American Experience
Story by Nguyễn Mộng Giác ♦ Translator: Andrew Lam(”Living” by Evelyna Liang Yee Woo (1980?) (color, ink on paper). In response to the needs of Vietnamese boat people residing in detention camps, Ms. Liang, a Hongkong artist, organized the “Art in the Camp” project in the early 1980s, supported by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and also the...
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Short Story
Mar.11.2009
Sudden Fiction (Continued)
Grandma's Tales
Andrew Lam
A day after Mama and Papa took off to Las Vegas Grandma died. Nancy and me, we didn't know what to do. Vietnamese traditional funeral with incense sticks and chanting Buddhist monks were not our thing.
"We have a big freezer," Nancy said. "Why don't we freeze Grandma. Really, why bother Mama and Papa—what's another day or...
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About Andrew
Andrew is a syndicated writer and an editor with the Pacific News Service, a short story writer, and a commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." He co-founded New America Media, an association of over 2000 ethnic media in...
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