Slog - Comments on Ed Lin Is Totally Awesome http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/ed_lin_is_totally_awesome Ed Lin is now in my Top Five Readers of His Or Her Own Work. Last night, at Elliott Bay Book Company, to an audience of 40 to 50 people, he read from his newest book, This Is a Bust, and he nailed it. Bust, which is about a Chinese-American police officer in New York's Chinatown, is set in 1976. "Bruce Lee is dead," Lin read, and Serpico had just cashed in a multimillion-dollar publishing check and moved to Europe. The first part of the reading, which took place in a few garbage-crusted alleys and a studio apartment with... Copyright 2008 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:24:43 -0800 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:02:37 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Fnarf Winston Groom wasn't stupid enough to take net points, was he? I've never been within ten thousand miles of Hollywood, and even I know you don't take net points; you take gross points. Movies NEVER make money; they're not supposed to make money. If a money shows a net profit, accountants get fired.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/ed_lin_is_totally_awesome#c949813 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/ed_lin_is_totally_awesome#c949813 Books Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:32:34 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways I haven't read the book and I'm not familiar with the author, but that's one handsome looking book cover.

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/ed_lin_is_totally_awesome#c949961 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/ed_lin_is_totally_awesome#c949961 Books Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:24:49 -0800 Comment by Sister Y I just read his first novel (Waylaid) because I just found it in my apartment yesterday. Apparently someone had given it to my boyfriend, and he'd never read it and had kind of hidden it behind another layer of books on the bookshelf, because he's embarrassed to own any Asian-American literature because people might think he's getting in touch with his Asian Heritage and his Cultural Roots. Anyway it was surprisingly good, refreshingly free from the smarmy getting-in-touch-with-your-Asian-Heritage crap that seems almost like a requirement to get your book published if you're Asian, though the book still boasts plenty of racist New Jersey folk dropping C-bombs all over the place. Also Ed Lin is smoking fucking hot.

]]> Sister Y http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/ed_lin_is_totally_awesome#c950203 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/ed_lin_is_totally_awesome#c950203 Books Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:02:28 -0800 Comment by Peter F Damn, I wish I'd gone to see Lin last night. Your writeup almost had me convinced yesterday, but the idea of slogging (heh) into Seattle across the bridges had me heading home instead. Dammit.

His books (which I hadn't heard of until you brought them up) are fast-tracked into my reading pile now. Thanks, Paul.

]]> Peter F http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/ed_lin_is_totally_awesome#c950204 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/ed_lin_is_totally_awesome#c950204 Books Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:02:37 -0800