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...Consider the story "Addiction," about a gay Singaporean student in London named Alistair. Parts of it are smartly observed, but structurally Poon draws too crude a contrast between London and Singapore to power her plot of a young man's journey of self-discovery. Alistair's parents are caricatured embodiments of lowbrow, materialist Asia. Because she uses the abbreviation k to denote a thousand, we are asked to believe that Alistair's mother has "a barbaric attitude towards money - reducing something vast to a small, inconsequential syllable." His father makes bawdy comments about the breasts of "these Western women" while...
...people who will protect the country, she thought ... Against such a solid breakwater the waves of cynicism would crash, but would fail." Here the exile returns to illuminate an intimate part of Singapore, and does so quite beautifully. One only hopes that Poon herself will make the return journey some...
...even want to write plays, but movies; McDonagh turned to theater only after all his film scripts were rejected. His second chance at his first love came when he wrote and directed the 2004 short film Six Shooter, about a grieving widower on a bizarre and ultimately deadly train journey. It won an Oscar, and soon after he was in Bruges shooting In Bruges...
...Crimson: What was the genesis of the book? Jennifer 8. Lee: I wrote an article in 2003 about a Chinese family that had moved from China to New York City and were now moving to Georgia to open a Chinese restaurant. Sitting with them a couple months into their journey, it just struck me that they knew nothing about opening a restaurant. And I saw Chinese restaurants through their eyes, and the strangeness of what Americans like. And I saw the real American Chinese restaurant in a real town of 750 in the foothills of the Appalachians...
...novel that accompanied the painting is unimportant—in fact, he barely remembers what “The Essence of Grunk” is about. But the painting reminds him of a difficult period in his life, a time of odd-but ultimately necessary-steps on his journey to stardom...