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Hyphen Magazine
''Hyphen'' is an American print and online magazine, founded in 2002 by a group of San Francisco Bay Area journalists, activists, and artists including Melissa Hung, a former reporter for the ''Houston Press'' and ''East Bay Express''; Claire Light, former executive director at Kearny Street Workshop; Yuki Tessitore, of ''Mother Jones; '' Mia Nakano, photojournalist; filmmaker Jennifer Huang; Stefanie Liang, a graphic designer from ''Red Herring magazine''; journalist Bernice Yeung; and Christopher Fan, now a professor of English and Asian American Studies. Its advisory board included notable Asian American journalists such as Helen Zia and Nguyen Qui Duc, the host of ''Pacific Time''. The first issue was released in June 2003. ''Hyphen'' was one of several Asian American media ventures created in the wake of ''A Magazines demise. Shortly after its release, the publication was sharply criticized by ''AsianWeek'' columnist Emil Guillermo who theorized that ''Hyphens young editors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction Fanzine
A science-fiction fanzine is an amateur or semi-professional magazine published by members of science-fiction fandom, from the 1930s to the present day. They were one of the earliest forms of fanzine, within one of which the term "''fanzine''" was coined, and at one time constituted the primary type of science-fictional fannish activity ("fanac"). Origins and history The first science-fiction fanzine, ''The Comet'', was published in 1930 by the Science Correspondence Club in Chicago. The term "fanzine" was coined by Russ Chauvenet in the October 1940 issue of his fanzine ''Detours''. in "Science Fiction Citations" for the Oxford English Dictionary "Fanzines" were distinguished from "prozines", that is, all professional s. Prior t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popular Culture
Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as, popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time. Popular culture also encompasses the activities and feelings produced as a result of interaction with these dominant objects. The primary driving force behind popular culture is the mass appeal, and it is produced by what cultural analyst Theodor Adorno refers to as the "culture industry". Heavily influenced in modern times by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of people in a given society. Therefore, popular culture has a way of influencing an individual's attitudes towards certain topics. However, there are various ways to define pop culture. Because of this, popular culture is something that can be defined in a variety of conflicting ways by different people across dif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian American Action Fund
The Asian American Action Fund (AAAFund) is an American Democratic political action committee founded in 1999. AAAFund's goal is to increase the voice of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) in every level of local, state and federal government in the United States. Specifically, AAAFund addresses the under-representation of AAPIs by organizing campaign volunteers, campaign contributions, technical support, and logistics for both endorsed and un-endorsed candidates running for political office. AAAFund has regional chapters in Northern California, Chicago, Northern Virginia/Maryland/District of Columbia, Southern Ohio, Georgia, and New York City as well as a young professional chapter. AAAFund receives financial support from foundations, corporations, individuals, and fundraisers. AAAF receives no government funds. History In October 2007, AAAF Board members Gautam Dutta and Caroline Fan started its blog. On May 31, 2008, the DNC awarded the AAAF blog team press cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Ferrell
Shana Monica Ferrell (born November 8, 1975) is an American poet and fiction writer. In 2007, she was awarded the Kathryn A. Morton Prize for her debut book of poems, ''Beasts for the Chase''. Her novel, ''The Answer Is Always Yes,'' was published by Random House in 2008. Her third book, a poetry collection entitled ''You Darling Thing'', was published by Four Way Books in 2018 and was named a New & Noteworthy selection by ''The New York Times''. It became a finalist for the Believer Book Award in Poetry and for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Early life and education Ferrell was born in New Delhi, India to a Punjabi mother and an American father. She received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University's School of the Arts and is married to poet and editor Michael Dumanis. Currently, she is the Doris and Carl Kempner Distinguished Professor at Purchase College (SUNY). Career Ferrell won the "Discovery"/''The Nation'' prize i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monique Truong
Monique T.D. Truong (born May 13, 1968, in Saigon in South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Yale University and Columbia University School of Law. She has written multiple books, and her first novel, '' The Book of Salt'', was published by Houghton-Mifflin in 2003. It was a national bestseller, and was awarded the 2003 Bard Fiction Prize, the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award. She has also written ''Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose'', along with Barbara Tran and Luu Truong Khoi, and numerous essays and works of short fiction. Early life and education Monique Truong was born in Saigon. In 1975, at the age of six, Truong and her mother left Vietnam for the United States as refugees of the Vietnam War. Her father, an executive for an international oil company, initially stayed behind for work but left the country after the fall of Saigon. The family lived in North Carolina, Ohio, and T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Chee
Alexander Chee (born August 21, 1967) is an American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer. Born in Rhode Island, he spent his childhood in South Korea, Kauai, Truk, Guam and Maine. He attended Wesleyan University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Career Chee's short fiction appeared in the anthologies ''Best American Erotica 2007, A Fictional History of the US (With Huge Chunks Missing), Men on Men 2000'', ''His 3,'' and his personal essays in'' Out, From Boys To Men, Loss Within Loss, Boys Like Us, The M Word,'' and ''The Man I Might Become.'' His essay "I, Reader" was selected for inclusion in the Notable Essays list of the 2011 edition of the ''Best American Essays'', and his essay "Girl," was included in '' Best American Essays 2016.'' His short stories and essays have also appeared in magazines and journals such as ''The New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Slate, Guernica, NPR''. Chee's poetry has appeared in '' Barrow Street'', ''LIT'', ''Interview'', the '' Jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li (born November 4, 1972) is a Chinese-born writer and professor in the United States. Her short stories and novels have won several awards, including the PEN/Hemingway Award and Guardian First Book Award for ''A Thousand Years of Good Prayers'', and the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for ''Where Reasons End''. She is an editor of the Brooklyn-based literary magazine '' A Public Space''. Biography Yiyun was born and raised in Beijing, China. Her mother was a teacher and her father worked as a nuclear physicist. Following a compulsory year of service in the People's Liberation Army, she went on to earn a B.S. at Peking University in 1996. In the same year she moved to the US and in 2000 earned an MS in immunology at The University of Iowa. In 2005 she earned an MFA degree in creative nonfiction and fiction from The Nonfiction Writing Program and the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her stories and essays have been published in ''The New Yorker'', ''The Paris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porochista Khakpour
Porochista Khakpour (Farsi: پوروچیستا خاکپور, born January 17, 1978) is an Iranian American novelist, essayist, and journalist. A refugee from Iran whose family fled the Iran-Iraq War and the Islamic Revolution, Khakpour grew up in the Greater Los Angeles area before moving to New York to attend Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of four books, including her 2007 debut novel '' Sons and Other Flammable Objects'' (2007). Her nonfiction essays have been published in The New York Times, Guernica, Los Angeles Times, CNN, The Paris Review Daily, Slate, Elle, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal. Early life Khakpour was born on January 17, 1978 in Tehran, Iran. Her first name, Porochista, is of ancient Zoroastrian origin and derives from “Pourucista”, one of Zarathustra’s daughters. Her parents, Manijeh and Asha Khakpour, met while working together at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI). Manijeh is an accountant, while Asha is a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Tau
Timothy Tau (born Timothy Tau Hsieh ( ); Chinese: 謝韜; pinyin: Xiè Tāo) is a Taiwanese-American writer, engineer, attorney, law professor and filmmaker. Tau won the 2011 ''Hyphen'' Asian American Writers' Workshop Short Story Contest for his short story, "The Understudy", which was published in the Winter 2011 issue of ''Hyphen'' magazine, Issue No. 24, the "Survival Issue." Tau also won Second Prize in the 2010 ''Playboy'' College Fiction Contest for his short story, "Land of Origin" (see the October 2010 issue of ''Playboy'' magazine). He has also directed a number of short films and music videos that have screened at various film festivals worldwide and on YouTube. Writing Tau's short story "The Understudy" is a comic-surrealist story about an Asian American actor named Jack Chang struggling in Los Angeles who must deal with the sudden emergence of a mysterious new understudy named Hyde on a production of a play (Eugène Ionesco's ''Rhinoceros'') he is working on. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunil Yapa
Sunil Yapa is a Sri Lankan American fiction writer and novelist. Yapa won the 2010 ''Hyphen'' Asian American Short Story Contest for his short story, "Pilgrims (What is Lost and You Cannot Regain)," which is also published in the Fall 2010 issue of ''Hyphen'', Issue No. 21, the "New Legacy Issue." His debut novel, ''Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist'' (2016) was released on January 12, 2016 by Lee Boudreaux Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company. Background The biracial son of a Sri Lankan father and a mother from Montana, Yapa grew up in central Pennsylvania and has traveled and lived in 48 US states and 35 countries, including Greece, Guatemala, Chile, Argentina, China, India, London, Montreal, and New York City.Ng, supra n.1 Yapa graduated from Penn State University in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economic Geography, for which he won the 2002 E.W. Miller Award for excellence in writing in the discipline. He briefly attended the University of Houston' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preeta Samarasan
Preeta Samarasan is a Malaysian author writing in English whose first novel, ''Evening Is the Whole Day'', won the Hopwood Novel Award (while she was doing her MFA at the University of Michigan), was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2009, and was on the longlist for the Orange Prize for Fiction. A number of short stories have also appeared in different magazines; “Our House Stands in a City of Flowers” won the Hyphen Asian American Short Story Contest or the Asian American Writers' Workshop/Hyphen Short Story award in 2007. Life Samarasan was born in Batu Gajah. Her father was a schoolteacher in Ipoh in Malaysia, where she attended the SM (Sekolah Menengah) Convent School. In 1992, she won a United World College scholarship and went to the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West in New Mexico, United States. After graduating in 1994, she went to Hamilton College, and then joined the Ph.D. program in musicology at the Eastman School of Music, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest types of literature and has existed in the form of legends, mythic tales, folk tales, fairy tales, tall tales, fables and anecdotes in various ancient communities around the world. The modern short story developed in the early 19th century. Definition The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella/short novel, authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques. The short story is sometimes referred to as a genre. Determining what exactly defines a short story has been recurrently problematic. A classic definition of a short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |