Cyrus Chen
@cyrus
Cyrus Chen
@cyrus
āFor the last twenty years, until recently, Jhumpa Lahiriās stories were the template of ethnic fiction that supports the fantasy of Asian American immigrants as compliant strivers. The fault lies not in Lahiri herself, who I think is an absorbing storyteller, but in the publishing industry that used to position her books as the āsingle storyā on i
... See moreāI am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.ā
-Charles Bukowski
āA neighbourhood is not only an association of buildings but also a network of social relationships, an environment where the feelings and the sympathy can flourish.ā -
Jane Jacobs
also think we need to learn to enjoy locality. Culture emerges from the connections between people, and I believe these are always strongest in person. Face-to-face cultural engagement is necessarily participatory, online cultural engagement rarely is. Nearly all of my most fulfilling and exciting experiences, those that have made me feel part of a
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