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Selected Personal essays:
Family : The Bedside Dispatches / The Homecoming Myth
Kitchen Life: Male Privilege in the Kitchen / Kitchen (Stage) Life / In Pursuit of the Stars
Travel: 48 Hours in Budapest / The Inca Trail Part I / Part II / Part III / JKT / 10 Types of People You Might Encounter at a Hostel
Selected Clips from The International Examiner:
Book reviews
'Island' a testament to blood, sweat, and tears of thousands | PDF Web
'Tiny Pretty Things' is Addictive
'Full Cicada Moon' explores teen struggles, biracial identity
'Enduring Conviction' Author Keeps Fred Korematsu Legacy Alive
Film reviews and festival coverage
SXSW 2022: roundup
SAAFF 2022: The Six
Sundance 2020: roundup
Sundance 2019: The Inventor
Sundance 2019: One Child Nation
Sundance 2019: Ms. Purple
Sundance 2019: Late Night
Sundance 2019: The Farewell
Sundance 2019: We Are Little Zombies
Berlinale 2018: Isle of Dogs
Berlinale 2018: Die Tomorrow
Berlinale 2018: An Elephant Sitting Still
Berlinale 2018: Spotlight on Korean cinema
Berinale 2018: Spotlight on Chinese and Taiwanese cinema
Berlinale 2018: Yocho
Berlinale 2018: The Silk and the Flame
Berlinale 2018: Spotlight on Japanese cinema
Sundance 2018: roundup
Sundance 2018: Searching
Sundance 2018: Spotlight on Asian Women Artists
Sundance 2018: Dead Pigs
Sundance 2018: Kailash
SXSW 2017: Mayhem
SXSW 2017: I Am Another You
SXSW 2017: Maineland
Tokyo 2014: roundup
Interviews
SXSW 2022: Director Ahsen Nadeem for Crows Are White
SXSW 2022: Filmmaker David Siev and family for Bad Axe
SXSW 2022: Co-directors Kishibashi and Justin Taylor Smith interview for Omoiyari
SXSW 2022: Actor Ke Huy Quan interview for Everything Everywhere All at Once
Director Chloe Zhao for The Rider
Documentarian Li-Shin Yu for Chinese Exclusion Act
Sundance 2018: Actress Vivian Bang for White Rabbit
SXSW 2017: Actress Greta Lee for Fits and Starts
SXSW 2017: Actor and co-writers Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon for The Big Sick
Full archive here.
Selected Clips from PopOptiq (formerly Sound on Sight):
Slavery in Cinema as Polar Opposites in Django Unchained and 12 Years a Slave
SFIFF 2014: 'Dear White People' a brilliant commentary on the concept of a post-racial society
SFIFF 2014: Richard Linklater receives Founder's Directing Award, debuts Boyhood
Interview with John Turturro for Fading Gigolo
SFIFF 2015: Shira Piven on Mental Illness in 'Welcome to Me'
SFIFF 2015: 'Meru' Co-Directors and Subjects Talk Mountaineering
Full archive here.
Selected clips from Metro News:
Grace Kelly: the future of jazz
Selected clips from The Stanford Daily:
Film reviews
Quick takes from TIFF 2011: Part 1 | Part 2
Interviews
Author to auteur - a conversation with Marjane Satrapi
Bringing 'Tinker Tailor' to the big screen (Gary Oldman and Tomas Alfredson)
Judy Greer: that one girl you know from that one movie
'Lawless' cast talks dynamics (Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce, John Hillcoat, Nick Cave, etc.)
Will Ferrell talks man-child characters and cowboys
Opinion
HBO's 'Girls' is more sex than city
Full archive here.
Elsewhere:
Thought Catalog / On womanhood and other things
Mother of All Stories | Asian Women United / The Sweet Life
8 Asians / Language Deficiency & The Asian American Identity
Bonjour Paris / Confessions of a Culinary Student
The Daily Telegraph / The World's Best Chocolate Shops
Drunk Monkeys / Reinterpreting 'The Lobster' as a Cautionary Tale About Online Dating
Elite Daily / Wander or Bust: Edinburgh, Scotland
Medium / An iPhone Addict Goes Abroad / Cuba Libre / Defining Success For Yourself, Not For Others / Ni Hao, Konnichiwa / Numbers Are Arbitrary