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Belle Yang's Blog
June 25, 2009
- Sunday, June 282 to 3:30 PM Partners in Reading San José Public Library 150 East San Fernando Street San José, CA 95112 Phone: (408) 808-2357I'll be doing a program planned around "Foo the Flying Frog of Washtub Pond" this Sunday at the above venue This little book is prefect for kids to read together as the characters are written as personalities in a play. When I present the ...
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June 2, 2009
- Below, an unpublished, unedited piece of where I was 20 years ago when the violence erupted in Beijing. I tried to set things down before my memory became fuzzy. Click here for unparalleled photos by Gao Bo from those heady, bloody day and night. From Guilin of slow flowing viridian rivers, and strange rock formations, I flew back to Beijing, coated with centuries of stranger, yellow ...
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May 31, 2009
- I created this comic strip around the 18th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre for the Washington Post. I tried a black and white version, but the editor, Marie Arana, said she'd give me the centerfold if I drew it in full color. Here is the interview with Marie: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/28/AR2007062802211.htmlAnd for a larger, more legible image of the ...
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May 25, 2009
- I posted this comment last year. This is a reminder to all about the approaching anniversary.**** I had promised myself I'd scan all the photos my friend X had taken during the night of June 3-4, 1989. I am exhausted and have managed to scan two-thirds. X, I believe, is living safely in France today. Nearly twenty years ago, on the night ...
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May 18, 2009
- Jess Brown. The few things I knew about this man I frequently met at activist Mary Green's parties: he was handsome, gentle and soft spoken; he had served on the board of the Monterey Museum of Art; he and his wife, Laura, had purchased one of my favorite paintings, that of Chinese acrobats. But I did not know one very important thing about Jess Brown: he is among three men whose imagination ...
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April 28, 2009
- http://www.redroom.com/blog/ryoma-collia-suzuki/being-a-writers-husband-book-signingsThis is an extremely useful tip for us book touring authors and too funny not to share. Please don't miss above linked post by Gina Collia-Suzuki's husband, Ryoma! Yay! Ryoma! You go. And don't miss this new post by Ryoma Colli-Suzuki:How to Make Bookmarks for One Cent! Brilliant. Why not bookmark ...
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April 26, 2009
- Dear Belle,How would you like to have a Big Sur adventure with me? I have been invited by Erin Gafill to videotape a little bit of Nepenthe's 60th Anniversary celebration on Friday. I would use it for a segment of Life in the Arts. All of the Big Sur artists and characters will come out of the woods for this one. I am looking for someone to help me with this assignment. Are you ...
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April 19, 2009
- You'll be hearing me cry, "I'm finished," multiple times before I am really done.Two weeks ago, I completed the body of my graphic novel, "Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale. Then I took five days off to play, feeling guilty after only the second day of goofing off.final page on the easel Tonight, I finished going over the yellow stickies containing notes from my editor, Alane ...
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April 14, 2009
- Sometimes, you feel a creative relationship is legendary while you are part of it. And if it won't be legend, why not pretend it is while you live it? It makes life all that more intriguing and dazzling. What's feels legendary about my connection to Steve and Nancy Hauk? Well, I'd have to search with a lantern the entire coast of California to find representatives who not only know art ...
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April 4, 2009
- This is a blog entry I write to myself to mark a celebration.I am drawing my very last page of "Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale," a memoir in graphic (comics) format. I've buried my great grandfather, I've taken the ashes of my grandparents to holy Wutain Mountain, I've made my father cry in remembering. It's taken me 13 years to reach this point. It has been a long struggle with ...
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March 29, 2009
- When I worked with Paula Wiseman at Harcourt Brace nearly a decade ago, I was surprised by her comment, which I paraphrase: "Your style is different from anyone else's."Then I heard it again today in a review in a Scholastic's online tool for teachers:I think frogs must just be boastful creatures because Foo is on a roll, bragging to his friends Mao-Mao and Sue-Lin. But he gets his ...
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March 21, 2009
- Gina and Ryoma Collia-Suzuki live in England and I, in California. We met in Redroom and have visited our homes through photographs. I've seen their beloved porcelain foo dogs and other treasures, placed just so. I've even met their eight sister rats (alas, now down to four). I've flown over their beaches, quarries and river via Google Earth. I got to see their old yew tree (the wood ...
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March 14, 2009
- Hear Belle Yang read Foo Frog in this Book Trailer on Youtube-ribbitBook signing at Hauk Fine Arts in Pacific Grove on April 11th, 11 AM to 2 PM. I bet if I talk tadpoles, your imagination will take you rushing back to your own experiences with anthropomorphic amphibians. If you've never caught a tadpole, I feel immensely sorry for you.When I was getting my blood test yesterday, I told nurse ...
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March 6, 2009
- I have to do it all over again. Kill my great grandfather. A friend tells me I am the reincarnation of Yang Junchen, who died in the middle of the great famine, unleashed by the Great Leap Forward. I came into the world in 1960 on the Island of Taiwan, where food was scanty, but I did not go hungry.I am working on the final chapter of "Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale." My ...
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February 23, 2009
- You can build some pretty intense friendships in Redroom--across a continent and a body of water. Gina and Ryoma Collia-Suzuki and I have shared our treasures, our dreams, our fears I introduce to them--and to you--my childhood and the lay of the land. ************* In the first five years of my life, I lived at the knees of Sleeping Dragon Mountain. I could see rice paddies and flowing ...
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