Today is Sunday, Feb. 19, the 50th day of 2012 with 316 to follow. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mars and Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Jupiter and Uranus. Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. They in

From what she understood, Lisa See was the fifth foreign visitor to the rural Chinese village nearly 250 kilometers outside of Shanghai. But she was the first Caucasian one. She had gone to research a novel with fellow author Amy Tan. See stood out with

Councilmember Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone) and his staff wore red on February 3 for the American Heart Association’s National Wear Red Day (aka Go Red For Women) to build awareness of women’s risk for heart disease and stroke. Pictured here (l. to r.); Jo

rom February 25 to March 23, Beijing will be awash in words, with not one, but two literary festivals bringing a slew of writers, poets and intellectuals to town—the Capital M Literary Festival (Feb. 25-March 4) and the Bookworm International Literary Fe

At the end of last year, I found the following email in my inbox: “As you are an ‘[o]bsessed hunter of lookalike covers…’ Talk about a strange, unsettling déjà vu moment... on the left is the image for Amy Tan’s new short story, being touted as her first

Michael Crossan, a hard-working, unpublished writer from Scotland, got the literary introduction of a lifetime last week--almost. His tweets had caught the eye of novelist Margaret Atwood, who alerted fellow A-list authors and “T-pals” William Gibson, Am