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...local talent is a little less lustrous, but that actually proves the genius behind the festival. Co-founders Jane Camens and Nury Vittachi, both literary-minded journalists, envisioned cosmopolitan Hong Kong as the perfect center in which to showcase "great writing with Asian roots," a category that can include just about anything with a gloss of soy sauce: expats writing Asia-based historical fiction, hyphenated Asians getting back to their roots, nonfiction writers discovering the region. Not to mention the proliferating literary output from the other side of the border with mainland China. Asian books are hot in the literary...
They decided to sell the chapel more than 20 years ago, according to Jane Sibert, chair of the Board of Trustees of the Swedenborgian House of Studies, which now resides in Berkeley...
...North London home - anything to avoid writing. "I'm a man of obsessive enthusiasms," he said. "Great bursts of energy followed by two days in bed." Amid a scandalous affair with married novelist Sally Emerson, he was twice stopped for DWK (driving while kissing). In 1991 he married Jane Belson, a level-headed British barrister, but retained one obsession: making Hitchhiker into a movie. Simpson chronicles that campaign, which culminated in the writer's 1999 move to California to keep up the pressure on Disney and its designated director Jay Roach (Austin Powers). To relieve his frustration over the stalled...
...tale of tragic unrequited love centers on Tatyana, portrayed by Jane Lynch ’03 last Friday. She is a daughter of the petty nobility stranded on a country estate and mired in reading romantic novels. When Onegin comes to visit with Vladimir Lensky, the beau of her sister Olga, Tatyana falls instantly in love with him. Thus begins the tragedy...
What's the appeal of the genre? Graduate student Ellen Jameson says painting puppies and sunsets with the kits she finds in New York City art-supply stores is "soothing. It's like a mindful meditation." Says marketing exec Jane Berk, who scours Los Angeles swap meets to find additions to her Western-themed collection of completed canvases: "They give you this comfortable feeling. When you are looking at them, you are transported back to Donna Reed time, when things seemed simpler...