Last year, I launched my memoir, Year of Fire Dragons , at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival. This November, I'll be parti...

I recently posted a video update on my first six months working as a full-time writer here in Hong Kong. Some of the milestones I mention in...

My spoils from events with X-Men writer Marjorie Liu, expat novelist Brittani Sonnenberg, and  Unexploded  writer Alison MacLeod. For t...

Available for pre-order on Amazon In a strange turn of events, I am in the process of launching two books this month. One is the Hong Ko...

THE GIST: Stories of eating and cooking from an authentic Chinese food connoisseur. THE VERDICT: Subtitled A Sweet-Sour Memoir of E...

THE GIST: Two strangers meet, possibly for the first time. Then the countdown begins. THE VERDICT: 7 Days and Counting is my fri...

This is Vietnamese food, not Singaporean, but it's what I had for lunch after Cheryl Tan and Fuchsia Dunlop's Lit Fest talks ab...

With Cheryl Tan at the Hong Kong Literary Festival This weekend I went to City University in Kowloon Tong for two writing workshops as p...

THE GIST: A businesslike woman in Hong Kong loses her family and has to navigate a world of money, corporate deals and new men while fig...

THE GIST: A blind girl and a reclusive boy connect and learn to heal from personal trauma over cello music and rhubarb. THE VERDICT: Th...

 THE GIST: A journalist spends a few years following young migrant workers in one of China's booming factory towns, telling the story...

The Hong Kong International Literary Festival occurs in connection with the Man Asian Literary Prize . This is a relatively new award in t...

 On Tuesday the Hong Kong International Literary Festival program included simultaneous events at the Central Library. I was responsible ...

Craig Silvey is the young Australian author of award-winning novels RHUBARB and JASPER JONES. I showed up for his event at the HK Internat...

The final session on Saturday at the HK Literary Festival featured a panel of highly successful people from the publishing world. Constanc...

 I was not initially assigned to the second Saturday session at the HK Literary Festival , but I was already at the Racing Museum so I end...

Saturday was a big day for the Hong Kong International Literary Festival . There were five events, all being held at the Racing Museum near...

This evening I helped at my second Hong Kong International Literary Festival event: a standing-room-only talk by Leslie T. Chang, the aut...

Last night I attended my first Hong Kong International Literary Festival event. It featured American journalist Peter Hessler, author of R...

THE GIST: A Peace Corps volunteer spends two years teaching English literature in Fuling on the Yangtze River and gets to know the local ...