Born 1951 in San Francisco and raised with one root in the traditional Toisanese speaking urban village of SF Chinatown and one root in the heady Bohemian North Beach culture of jazz, Beat poetry,
"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)
