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...Author Gish Jen '77 delivered the keynote address to an audience of about...
...Gish Jen was really inspirational," said Maureen C. Hickey...
...Chicago-based alternative band is quite capable of turning out three-minute, radio-ready songs (Today, Disarm). It also excels in creating longer, art-pop compositions that wander about for seven minutes or more, exploring a variety of musical textures, melodies and emotions. The band's first CD, Gish (1991), featured assertive rock that was at once primal and cerebral; its second, Siamese Dream (1993), was a buzzing, humming, intricately constructed maze of sounds...
These models provide a beginning. Learn from the experiences of others also. People like Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Ralph Ellison, and W.E.B. DuBois, whose works resonate for us as people of color. And most importantly, learn from what writers like Gish Jen, Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan show us of the ways in which our sisters view us (views which perhaps we might not always like seeing...
...deep. "When there is a great success like Amy Tan's book, everyone is out there looking for his or her own Amy Tan," says Shannon Ravenel, the recently retired editor of the annual collection of The Best American Short Stories. Louie, 36, predicts that "if Gus Lee or Gish Jen don't come through with big sales, then the next wave of interest in Asian- American writers may not come for another 15 years." That would be a shame, because each of these authors possesses the kind of fresh and original voice that marks a genuine talent...