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Recent Interviews

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I’ve been featured on a couple author blogs this past month. First up is Tim Gurung, author of Old Men Don’t Cry: A Hong Kong Tale of Sorrow:

But I doubt e-books will ever replace physical books. There’s something satisfying of not only holding a physical book in your hands but having a full bookshelf in your house.

Check out the rest here.

Also, Susan Blumberg-Kason, author of Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong has featured me as her Author of the Month for April, 2016!

Someone once told me that no one would read my book unless they’d lived in China.

That’s absurd. It’s like saying that nobody would read A Confederacy of Dunces unless they’d lived in 1960s New Orleans.

Read the rest here.

Big thanks to these great writers for interviewing me. If you’re a writer and you’d like me to interview you, get in touch! You can check out all the interviews I’ve conducted so far here.

Book Passage of the Week (11/28/2015)

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This week’s book passage comes from Philalawyer. His book, Happy Hour is for Amateurs, details his life in law and his eventual escape. What he writes about isn’t limited to law. Work sucks, but life doesn’t have to:

To the average law student biting his nails, scribbling notes furiously, chain smoking outside the library and mainlining espresso to stay up studying into the early morning, this thinking is insane. The job is the brass ring, and if you’re not pathologically devoted to “the law”, you’re at odds with almost everyone and everything around you. The statements professors routinely made about commitment to the field—”I never had time to read a newspaper in law school”, or “Law becomes your life”—struck me as signs of mental illness, low intellect, or a person trying to escape himself.

– Philalawyer, Happy Hour Is For Amateurs: Work Sucks. Life Doesn’t Have To.

Check out his blog (on the Internet Archive) and don’t miss his Commencement 2009 speech.