To Hell With Williamsport, Pennsylvania!
I hate that goddamned town! Let me give you some background about Williamsport, Pennsylvania. It was once the lumber capital of the world — in the late 1890s. From that era there are still a couple of streets of mansion-like homes known as “Millionaire’s Row.” The town has been in decline since about 1900. We moved there in 1986, the summer before my senior year in high school. My parents had sold the sleazy motel in New Jersey and bought a brand-name joint in...
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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.