Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire fami…

- Sandra Tsing Loh

Recently it was pointed out to me - in a kind of hurtful way, to be honest - that people in Los Angeles are aurally challenged. That is, at social ev…

- Sandra Tsing Loh

When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.

- Sandra Tsing Loh

Panic is efficient. Panic is effective. Panic is the way I get things done! Panic attacks are my booster rockets!

- Sandra Tsing Loh

All autobiography is fiction.

- Sandra Tsing Loh

It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white models who are supposed to…

- Sandra Tsing Loh

Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat.

- Sandra Tsing Loh

here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of ot…

- Sandra Tsing Loh

living in Los Angeles was like being an extra in a movie that was starring other people entirely.

- Sandra Tsing Loh