Influences

• "In My Mother;a House" by Kim Chernin
  
  "The Color of Water" by James McBride
  "Notes of a Native Son" by James Baldwin

  Alice Walker
  Dashiell Hammett
  Raymond Chandler
  Bible -- King James Version
  Mao Tse-tung
  Thich Nhat Han
  HH Dalai Lama
  Thomas Jefferson

Favorite Books

• Temple of My Familiar, Red Harvest, The Thin Man, The Long Goodbye, The Love Wife, Androgyny, East of Eden, Notes of a Native Son, Seeing Through Shuck: An Anthology (1960s)

Favorite Authors

• Alice Walker, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Gish Jen, John Steinbeck, James Baldwin, Sir Author Conan Doyle; Jack Kerouac; Barbara Kingsolver; Henry Miller

What I'm Reading

• Serving the People, an ARC; Peony in Love; Vanity Fair, The May Fourth Movement, The Open Road, Intimate Portraits, History as Propaganda (Tibet & China)

Web Links

• The Eighth Promise