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Jul.12.2009
I am finally peaceful enough to write after a health scare that sucked away all oxygen for nearly a year. The last three weeks turned nightmarish, because my eyes were to be implanted with medicine at St. Mary's on Wednesday. A foreign object was going to be plugged in near my retina. After...
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Jun.25.2009
Sunday, June 28
2 to 3:30 PM
Partners in Reading San José Public Library 150 East San Fernando Street San José, CA 95112
Phone: (408) 808-2357
I'll be doing a program planned around "Foo the Flying Frog of Washtub Pond" this Sunday at the above venue This little book is prefect for...
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Jun.02.2009
Below, an unpublished, unedited piece of where I was 20 years ago when the violence erupted in Beijing. I tried to set things down before my memory became fuzzy. Click here for unparalleled photos by "Gabriel" from those heady, bloody days and nights.
From Guilin of slow flowing...
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May.31.2009
I created this comic strip around the 18th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre for the Washington Post. I tried a black and white version, but the editor, Marie Arana, said she'd give me the centerfold if I drew it in full color. Here is the interview with Marie:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
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May.25.2009
I posted this comment last year. This is a reminder to all about the approaching anniversary.
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I had promised myself I'd scan all the photos my friend X had taken during the night of June 3-4, 1989. I am exhausted and have managed to scan two-thirds. X, I believe, is living safely in France...
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May.18.2009
Jess Brown. The few things I knew about this man I frequently met at activist Mary Green's parties: he was handsome, gentle and soft spoken; he had served on the board of the Monterey Museum of Art; he and his wife, Laura, had purchased one of my favorite paintings, that of Chinese acrobats. But...
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Apr.28.2009
http://www.redroom.com/blog/ryoma-collia-suzuki/being-a-writers-husband-...
This is an extremely useful tip for us book touring authors and too funny not to share. Please don't miss above linked post by Gina Collia-Suzuki's husband, Ryoma! Yay! Ryoma! You go.
And don't miss this new post by...
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Apr.26.2009
Dear Belle,
How would you like to have a Big Sur adventure with me? I have been invited by Erin Gafill to videotape a little bit of Nepenthe's 60th Anniversary celebration on Friday. I would use it for a segment of Life in the Arts. All of the Big Sur artists and characters will come out of the...
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Apr.19.2009
You'll be hearing me cry, "I'm finished," multiple times before I am really done.
Two weeks ago, I completed the body of my graphic novel, "Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale. Then I took five days off to play, feeling guilty after only the second day of goofing off.
final page on...
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Apr.14.2009
Sometimes, you feel a creative relationship is legendary while you are part of it. And if it won't be legend, why not pretend it is while you live it? It makes life all that more intriguing and dazzling. What's feels legendary about my connection to Steve and Nancy Hauk? Well, I'd have to...
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Apr.04.2009
This is a blog entry I write to myself to mark a celebration.
I am drawing my very last page of "Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale," a memoir in graphic (comics) format. I've buried my great grandfather, I've taken the ashes of my grandparents to holy Wutain Mountain, I've made my father...
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Mar.29.2009
When I worked with Paula Wiseman at Harcourt Brace nearly a decade ago, I was surprised by her comment, which I paraphrase: "Your style is different from anyone else's."
Then I heard it again today in a review in a Scholastic's online tool for teachers:
I think frogs must just be...
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Mar.21.2009
Gina and Ryoma Collia-Suzuki live in England and I, in California. We met in Redroom and have visited our homes through photographs. I've seen their beloved porcelain foo dogs and other treasures, placed just so. I've even met their eight sister rats (alas, now down to four). I've flown over...
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Mar.14.2009
Hear Belle Yang read Foo Frog in this Book Trailer on Youtube-ribbit
Book signing at Hauk Fine Arts in Pacific Grove on April 11th, 11 AM to 2 PM.
I bet if I talk tadpoles, your imagination will take you rushing back to your own experiences with anthropomorphic amphibians. If you've never caught...
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Mar.06.2009
I have to do it all over again. Kill my great grandfather. A friend tells me I am the reincarnation of Yang Junchen, who died in the middle of the great famine, unleashed by the Great Leap Forward. I came into the world in 1960 on the Island of Taiwan, where food was scanty, but I did not go...
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About Belle
Belle Yang, subject of the PBS documentary, “My Name is Belle,” is often asked whether she is primarily a writer or a painter. Answer: "When I'm writing, I'm a writer; when I'm painting, I'm a painter." Is she a children's author or writers of adult...
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