Frank Abe, Co-editor of "John Okada: The Life and Rediscovered work of the Author of No-No Boy," covered the campaign to get people, particularly academic faculty, to continue supporting the UW Press edition of "No-No Boy." Here's an excerpt: "Buyer beware: The edition of No-No Boy published by...
The University of Washington Graduate School interviewed me about how I work. This series was inspired by Lifehacker's How I Work. Read the interview. Back to Press...
This story by Mary Kollar appeared in "Perspectives" newsletter. A snippet: "A statue of the philosopher Giordano Bruno stands prominently in the Campo di Fiore in Rome. UW student Jordan DeSanto stands at the philosopher’s feet and teaches me, Professor Shawn Wong and 13 UW students about Bruno’s...
A piece about a former student of mine, Jane Yang, and our time teaching basketball players in China. A snippet: "It’s a Tuesday afternoon in late September, and sophomore Jane Yang is teaching a classroom full of UW basketball players how to say “Beat Texas” in Mandarin....
This profile details my work with the Red Badge Project. The Red Badge Project is "a nonprofit in partnership with the military [which] teaches soldiers in the Warrior Transition Battalion to express themselves through photography, filmmaking and creative writing. The battalion is comprised of active-duty,...
In 2006, Roger Ebert reviewed the film "Americanese," based on my novel, "American Knees." "Americanese" was directed by Eric Byler, who co-wrote the film's script with me. Here's an excerpt: There's none of the silliness of an Adult Teenager Movie where romance is a montage of candlelight...
(That's a picture of me on the left.) This feature details how I came to be involved with the PBS documentary, "Becoming American: The Chinese Experience," which first aired in 2003. It was an opportunity that I resisted at first, because I'm not a historian —...