A recipient of the San Francisco Creative Works Fund, Andrew Lam is the author of a collection of short stories, Birds of Paradise Lost, and two collections of essays, Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora and East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres. He served on the jury of the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
A photography installation from Dinh Q. Lê’s exhibit True Journey Is Return at the San Jose Museum of Art. Photo: Sharon Mollerus
Not far from where I live now, a kilometer or so, the...
Pasadena, California. Red Hen Press. 2013. ISBN 9781597092685
Andrew Lam, author of the essay collections Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora and East Eats West: Writin...
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. played himself in the movie Back to School, where he comically helps the wealthy Thornton Melon (played by Rodney Dangerfield) in a homework scheme that backfires.
“Dear M...
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“Thanks-giving,” said Mr. K., my seventh-grade English teacher. “Repeat after me: Thanksgiving.”
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As a refugee from Vietnam, a country colonized by the French and then fought over by the Americans and the Soviet Union, I see the Obama presidency as spelling the end of a...