AUTHOR: Daughters of the Bamboo Grove, Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town; Nothing to Envy (N. Korea),Logavina Street (Bosnia)

Joined March 2009
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Barbara Demick retweeted
Deep admiration for @BarbaraDemick and the Chinese novelist Fang Fang, winners of the @AsiaSociety @chinabksreview Baifang Schell Book Prize. A great event tonight in NY. Fang Fang, whose books are banned in the PRC, was not able to leave China to accept her award.
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Overseas Press Club awards. Congratulations to all... opcofamerica.org/87th-annual…
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Together with @JanePerlez on Faceoff. This episode about identical twins, one Chinese and one American, and what they teach us about nationality and identity. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Is Jeff Bezos deliberately sabotaging the Washington Post? I can understand reining in critical coverage of Trump, of course he's scared, but he could have preserved his dignity and the newspaper by funding sports and foreign.
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This will be Bezos' enduring legacy...
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Barbara Demick retweeted
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
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Please, we need the Washington Post's foreign correspondents. And despite all, I never cancelled my subscription. And advised others not to as well.
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Iceland v. Greenland. Guidance from Robert Altman's The Player (1992) June: Greenland's very icy. Iceland's very green. They switched names to fool the Vikings who tried to steal their women. Griffin Mill: Oh, I see.
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My article about an adoptee who grew up thinking she'd been abandoned by her Chinese family. When it ran in May, it went viral (7 million views on Tiktok) and it was just listed among The New Yorker's best articles of 2025. newyorker.com/culture/2025-i…
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This should be a great talk....
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I hope you’ll join me next Tuesday at Diesel Books in Brentwood, CA. I’ll be chatting with ⁦@BarbaraDemick⁩ about her new book. Be there or be square. ⁦@randomhouse
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