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Books
China Girl: And Other Stories — book cover
Fiction · Short Stories

China Girl & Other Stories

Regent Press · 2017 · 214 pages · ISBN 978-1587904035

Nine tales navigating the collisions between East and West — the power of myth and the burden of history, loves lost and almost found. From contemporary vignettes about urban life to fable-like musings on memory and the art of storytelling, China Girl is a journey into today's Asia as well as an Asia of the imagination.

2017 Pinnacle Award — Literary Fiction Best Book Awards Finalist — Short Story
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Bond Movies: A Retrospective — book cover
Film Criticism · Non-Fiction

Bond Movies: A Retrospective

Barely Made It Press · 2021 · 459 pages · ISBN 979-8-98511-020-3

A comprehensive, sometimes irreverent celebration of the 007 phenomenon — over six decades and more than two dozen films. Packed with behind-the-scenes details, fun trivia, and in-depth commentary on each film's virtues and flaws, it's a book for Bond fans of all stripes, from first-timers to seasoned aficionados of both the movies and the original Ian Fleming novels.

5/5 — Foreword Reviews
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Essays
China, September 11
Non-Fiction · 2001

China, September 11

A dispatch from three weeks in China and Tibet — shopping for pirated 9/11 DVDs in Shanghai, bribing guards at the Great Wall at night, and learning of the attacks from a TV in a Beijing apartment. A portrait of a country processing someone else's catastrophe from the other side of the world.

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Taipei Sketches
Travel Essay · 2023

Taipei Sketches

Fragments from a return to Taipei — the night markets and mountain temples, the particular rhythms of a city that rewards slow attention. A series of impressions from a place that resists easy description.

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The Comma
Essay · 2005

The Comma

At a writers conference in Carson City, a chance encounter at a small coffee shop — Comma Coffee — becomes a meditation on travel, memory, the people we almost meet, and the places that linger long after we've left them.

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