Amy Tan

WHERE DOES CREATIVITY HIDE…?

Have Coffee Will Writ (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008

Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, looking for hints of how hers evolved...

Skin and Bone

Out West Arts (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008

l-r: Zheng Cao as Ruth Young Kamen, Ning Liang as LuLing Liu Young, and Qian Yi as Precious Auntie Photo: Terrence McCarthy/SFO 2008 There is something to be said for lowered expectations. I was actually fairly entertained by Stewart Wallace and Amy Tan’s opera The Bonesetter’s Daughter now receiving it’s world premiere performances in San Francisco. However, given that my most recent new opera

To the Best of Our Knowledge: Sherman Alexie; Alice Walker; V.S. Naipaul; Orhan Pamuk; Amy Tan; Toni Morrison

Dialogic (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008

Writing the World To the Best of Our Knowledge (Wisconsin Public Radio) Host: Jim Fleming SEGMENT 1: Sherman Alexie has written novels, film screenplays and a short story collection. He talks with Steve Paulson about being a Native American writer. And, Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "The Color Purple." She talks with Jim Fleming about "Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth,"...

The Bonesetter’s Daughter: the Opera

Sardonic Sistah's Summer Place (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008

Maybe we are seeing the start of a new trend? A couple of years ago Toni Morrison took her award winning book Beloved and wrote the libretto for an American opera called Margaret Garner. Now Amy Tan is doing the same with her book The Bonesetter’s Daughter. “You know, the key was really to cut out the words [...]

The Bonesetter's Daughter

Civic Center (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008

There was plenty of excitement and anticipation involved with San Francisco Opera's ninth world premiere in its history, "The Bonesetter's Daughter" with a libretto by Amy Tan and music by Stewart Wallace. Because so many of the performers were direct from China, the opera company had even put up signage translated into Chinese all over backstage directing people to stage left and stage right. I've...

• Music Review | 'The Bonesetter’s Daughter': 3 Generations of Chinese Women Find Voice in Opera - New York Times
• Amy Tan's opera "The Bonesetter's Daughter" premieres in San Francisco - TED Blog
• See the 4 articles on the same subject

English Cafe #154

http://idiomato.com/rss?status=all (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008

Topics: Famous Americans: Amy Tan; Americans with Disabilities Act; to take convincing, full-fledged, dudeWords:descentto fightto give (someone) 18 Vote(s)

My Undiscovered Amy Tan Film :: Danwei

Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008

Blogger Thomas Crampton posts some of his so-called "work" on Danwei from time-to-time. Bestselling author Amy Tan this weekend premieres her first opera, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, so I have decided to open the greater public to one of her lesser-known earlier cinematic works (and my film directing debut). Some images were used in her excellent TED talk on Creativity. Enjoy! Wait! is that Hollywood...

• My Undiscovered Amy Tan Film - Danwei

My Original (and undiscovered) Amy Tan Film

Thomas Crampton (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008

Bestselling author Amy Tan this weekend prepares for the world premiere of her opera, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, so I have decided to open the greater public to one of her lesser-known cinematic works (and my film directing debut). Unlike The Joy Luck Club or her film and TV appearances, this work - starring Amy - was [...]

New & Hot: Amy Tangerine Political Pride Tees

Adventures in the Stiletto Jungle (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008

Show your political pride in style, no matter which side of the aisle you call home, with these brand new political pride tees from super cute tee label Amy Tangerine. Amy Tan, the designer behind the Amy Tangerine label, is known for crafty tees with plenty of girly-girl appeal. Amy's tees are carried by all of the hottest stores, including Kitson and Olive and Bette's, and have been featured in

Yellow Peril: A Chinese American's Olympic Struggle

bilerico.com (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008

In case you haven't noticed, I'm Chinese. I'm also American. I won't go into a whole Amy Tan-esque lament of intercultural limbo, as I think (or at least hope) the difficulties of Chinese-Americans to find cultural solace in a country that constantly excludes and "others" them, is well enough established within our national consciousness. If not, go read The Joy Luck Club or something and get back...

Amy Tan Operatic at 50; Boomer Addictions Growing, Could Break Medicare; New Clues to Link Between Heart Disease and Cognition

Women's Voices for Change (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008

Getting On The Bestseller Lists'? Turning 50 means many things to many busy women. To acclaimed novelist Amy Tan, shown above reading from her book Saving Fish from Drowning , it meant bringing her novel The Bonesetter's Daughter to the stage, with its rich narrative of life in the Chinese-American diaspora. But what her mother really wanted to know, Tan told the Times' Amy Solomon, was why she...

Rock Bottom

Blades Out (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008

I'm not sure how I missed the following sweet, golden nugget of information, considering how many times I have "googled" Stephen King's name for the purposes of mockery on this blog, but, in today's New York Times Magazine , in the course of a brief interview, respected author Amy Tan mentioned that she is in a band with several other authors, including Mr. Stephen King. The band, in existence since...

Ted Talk Amy Tan on Creativity

:::Mo(nu)ments::: ©Ine Dehandschutt (Free subscription) | 14/05/2008

Always fun to post an inspiring talk :)

Amy Tan's Hidden China

Intelligent Travel (Free subscription) | 13/05/2008

Photo of Dimen Village by Lynn Johnson In May's all-China issue of National Geographic, novelist Amy Tan explores life in a minority ethnic village deep in the green mountains of Guizhou in southern China. The village might as well be...

Amy Tan: Where does creativity hide?

30-something (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008

Came across this presentation on the TED web site. It's quite entertaining at the beginning before delving into some serious corners of Amy Tan's dark psyche. Persist because she ties it all together quite nicely at the end. Man, I wish I could go to a TED conference.