For Asian Americans, the release of BETTER LUCK TOMORROW marked a milestone.  Actor Parry Shen wrote a widely distributed email plea that roused Asian Americans to support Asian American film by going out to see the groundbreaking movie.  I'm feeling Shen's urgency now as I move forward with my just completed manuscript, Facebuddha:  Transcendence in the Age of Social Networks. The book is narrative non-fiction, about the psychology of social networks and relationships - but being written by me, a lo ...Continue Reading

(Apologies to some of you, who received a blank message earlier today.  Here's the message, with a bonus feature as well, #3!) Happy Summer!  I've got a couple of events in the next week or so for everyone in the San Francisco area.  I've been told that one of them, at the Asian Art Museum, will be YouTubed.  I'll be sure to send a link when that's available.  Event details are below. 1.  "Collection Obsessions" Asian Art Museum, San Francisco Thursday, July 18, 2013, 6:30 ...Continue Reading

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Thanks for subscribing to my list - I promise not to spam you and provide information that will hopefully be helpful and thoughtful for you.  And please read to the end - I have a special request to help a friend and colleague, as well as a reminder to get on the Bone Marrow Donor registry. This quarter has been busy on the blogging front.  Identity, art, psychology and culture intersected on my Memoirs of a Superfan blog for the Center for Asian American Media.  This is my eighth year blogging/writing ...Continue Reading

_Sangha Francisco_ A monthly discussion group focused on building community and compassion We will first focus over the course of several months on the new, highly acclaimed 700+ page book “Far From the Tree” by Andrew Solomon.  His topic is how parents learn to love their children who are very different from them.  I am sure this will springboard into a discussion of how to love others more generally, since we are all different, and how to build community based on this ideal.  Our practice of listening ...Continue Reading

Dear <!-- tmpl_var subscriber.first_name -->, If you're in the Bay Area, I hope you're enjoying our late-breaking Indian Summer!  We'll be having another kind of Indian (er, South Asian) Summer in a couple of weeks!  I'll be performing with South Asian poets at LitCrawl, part of LitQuake 2012. Also performing will be poets from the Indivisible Anthology of South Asian American Poetry, winner of a Special Recognition Award from the 2011 Northern California Book Critics (http://www.indivisibleanthology ...Continue Reading

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