In fiction, it's as if you enter a dream world that you created, but your characters have their own free will. They don't do what you want them to do - they get into trouble, do drugs, fight over petty things, and do outrageous things that you wouldn't want your children to do. In other words, you can only provide the background, the seeds - in my case the background of the Vietnamese refugee.
Where are the leaders who can speak to the idea that it is not alien to American interests, but very much in our socioeconomic interests - not to men… - Andrew Lam
Where are the leaders who can speak to the idea that it is not alien to American interests, but very much in our socioeconomic interests - not to men…
- Andrew Lam
Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal. - Andrew Lam
Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.
As a Vietnamese refugee who became an American writer, I can tell you that you matter, that your sadness matters, the story of how you survived and t… - Andrew Lam
As a Vietnamese refugee who became an American writer, I can tell you that you matter, that your sadness matters, the story of how you survived and t…
The collection is a labor of love and devotion, and whenever I found free time from my journalism work, I'd work on one story or another, or at least… - Andrew Lam
The collection is a labor of love and devotion, and whenever I found free time from my journalism work, I'd work on one story or another, or at least…
I have a funny story to tell about English and how I came to fall in love with the language. I was desperate to fit in and spoke English all the time… - Andrew Lam
I have a funny story to tell about English and how I came to fall in love with the language. I was desperate to fit in and spoke English all the time…
America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they we… - Andrew Lam
America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they we…
Today, more people are crossing various borders in order to survive, thrive, change their lives. Even if you don't cross the border, with demographic… - Andrew Lam
Today, more people are crossing various borders in order to survive, thrive, change their lives. Even if you don't cross the border, with demographic…
That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes an… - Andrew Lam
That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes an…
Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs. - Andrew Lam
Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.
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