New Berlin West prom pictures go off without a hitch; some had raised earlier concerns BROOKFIELD, Wis. (CBS 58) -- A decision for New Berlin West high school students to meet up in Downtown Milwaukee for pre-prom photos went on as planned, despite some parents voicing concerns about

Not sure if you remember this story from Wisconsin a couple of years ago. “Controversy” over suburban high schoolers going to Milwaukee to take prom photos. The news video is like a mockumentary. cbs58.com/news/new-ber...

Feng Zikai painting of a man and a youngster, reaching to receive some herbs passed down by a snake on a high branch

may the new year help, not hinder; and allow us to shed the sorrows of the old.

[豐子愷 采藥 Feng Zikai, "Collecting Herbs"]

#蛇年安康

Hi friends. The audiobook for Chinese Prodigal was released last week, so if you've been waiting to read it, why not have me read it to you? (Yes, I'm the narrator!) It's available on Audible (Amazon), Apple Books, and Audiobooks.com. Thanks!

How about Mostert v Pittman?

I know it sounds insane but this is not a joke, Texas pays millions to bitcoin miners to not eat up electricity during high demand days. That’s a real policy that exists bsky.app/profile/juli...

mel tucker’s contract is worth over twice wvu’s budget deficit

The Larry Meiller Show Join host Larry Meiller every weekday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on The Ideas Network stations as he discusses environmental and consumer issues, gardening and helpful "how-to" topics with his

Join me live on WPR's The Larry Meiller Show on the Ideas Network tomorrow (Thursday) morning from 11:00am-11:45am CT to talk about Chinese Prodigal. Over the air and streamable from the show's website. Hope you can tune in and call in to ask a question!

My hell money arrived. Love the way it looks!

They did Mary Shelley dirty in the Frankenstein film credits.

i’m waiting for the inevitable “you were my mom’s/dad’s professor!” any day now.

A Prodigal Son Reckons With Family and History | Kirkus Reviews What does it mean to be Asian American? In a new book, David Shih finds answers in the personal and the political.

I get to talk about Chinese Prodigal in this fun interview with Tom Beer, editor-in-chief of Kirkus. You find out why the title is a pun!

This means so much to me, @alexanderchee.bsky.social. Thank you, truly.

Reading—and Writing—Like an Asian American In the early nineties, when I was an English major at the University of Texas, I was reading more than ever but nothing that could be called Asian American literature. Whether or not I was writing …

For Lithub, got to write about reading Asian American writers for the first time.

Perfect take on this topic and the age-old architecture of blaming the victim messaging.

the hanania affair is most revealing for the simple reason that it is the easiest possible case. do you disavow and exclude the legitimately stupid guy who is openly a genocidal racist? and for a bunch of the commentariat the answer is “maybe…no?”

clarence thomas was that guy at your high school with a bmw

ICYMI On the occasion of James Baldwin's birthday, my essay on the 60th anniversary of The Fire Next Time and what it means to teach it in a new era of book bans.

Resurrecting this fierce rabbit god in the latter half of #YearOfTheHare #兔年 to guard us from the current Hellmouth

[林窯。余淑麗 2011, Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan]

Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally

Writers to Watch: 10 Noteworthy Nonfiction Debuts, Fall 2023 Twinhood, human evolution, infrastructure, and tactile communication are among the wide range of topics covered in this season’s noteworthy nonfiction debuts.

Honored to be included in this group with @amyhundley.bsky.social for my memoir Chinese Prodigal, forthcoming from Grove Atlantic on August 15! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/prof...

“let ron be the step-dad you always hated.”

*taps mic* Hello, good people of the sky. I come with your midweek reminder that we have a #HISTORY feed: 🗃️

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Her response here is so inspiring. To be this young and this free.

a narc in a lecture about narcs

My bad, forgot the bsky.social part of my handle on the log in screen. Seems to be working now!

Thanks -- trying it now, but using my handle and the one-time, generated pw and hitting "submit" doesn't take me anywhere. I assume Twitter is blocking it somehow. Will try again later.

the sketch kills me. not sure what is more amusing—the dog or its owner’s calf.