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Spring 2011 Interview with Ed International Examiner Spring 2010 Radio Interview with Ed, KBOO (Portland, Ore.) APA Compass Interview May 2010 Interview with Ed, Murder by the Book (Portland, Ore.) Murder by the Book April 2010 Interview with Ed, Kartika Review Kartika Review Jan. 2010 Interview with Ed, Snarky’s Machine Snarky’s Machine Aug. 2009 Interview with Ed, Nichi Bei Times Nichi Bei Times Dec. 2008 Interview with Ed, neighborbeeblog neighborbeeblog Feb. 2008...
Read MoreBeautiful Men Holding My New Book
Here’s my new book, One Red Bastard, being held by incredible men who are extremely good-looking! The book will be out in May, but these hunks are already out there! Joel de la Fuente Daniel Dae Kim David Henry Hwang You can check out the book trailer here! Share
Read MorePeter Hook at Gramercy Theatre, Sept. 13
The right “Atmosphere” for Hair Club for Men. Peter Hook‘s New York City show (and first date of his U.S. tour) was moved from Irving Plaza (1,200 capacity) to the smaller Gramercy Theatre, catching a number of walkups off-guard when the show sold out. I wasn’t so hot on the t-shirts for sale. They would have been so much cooler if they didn’t say “Joy Division” and “Manchester” at the bottom. Strangely, even though Hooky was going to...
Read MoreEdwyn Collins, Live in Brooklyn, March 13
I wore my fringe like Roger McGuinn’s! Like everyone else I’ve been following the recovery of Edwyn Collins — erstwhile Orange Juice frontman and solo one-world-wide-hit wonder (“A Girl Like You“). The man suffered two major cerebral hemorrhages in 2005, for a while rendering him in a condition where he could only say four things:...
Read MorePremium Money Scams
#1 Lesson: Never pay cash when you can use credit. I saw Guided by Voices play on Dec. 30 and Dec. 31 and wanted to blog about it, but a phone call changed all that. It was from the company that handles my 401(k) retirement account. A woman informed me that I now qualified for a new level of service — a “premium” level, in fact. She wanted to assign me a personal account executive right away. Immediately suspicious, I said I had to go and that she should send me information...
Read MoreSanta Cruz, not Santa Claus!
Amberly Young is so awesome! (Did you draw a heart because you love me?) Santa Cruz is a beautiful place and University of California, Santa Cruz, has the best-looking campus I’ve ever seen. It seems hidden within a forest of giant redwoods. A guy who took me around campus told me that new students often become lost on the trails that connect the campuses. I was intrigued by the Mima Mounds — Kyle, you rock for bringing me on the long and perilous hike (we had to climb a...
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Ed Lin is the author of Waylaid, This Is A Bust, Snakes Can't Run, and One Red Bastard. Lin, who is of Taiwanese and Chinese descent, is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards. Ed lives in New York with his wife, actress Cindy Cheung.