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  • Archive for March 26th, 2008

    Tonight at the San Francisco Public Library and Launch Party

    Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

    So I have two events back to back tonight (Wednesday, March 26) — library and a 150+ person party.

    6:30 to 7:30 p.m. San Francisco Public Library […]

    OC Register’s Q&A…musings on my Chinese name and Colbert

    Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

    Richard Chang of the Orange County Register write a Q&A with me and also plugs the appearances at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena; Friday at Skylight Books in Los Angeles; and Saturday at the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda. What is nice: it will also be picked up in the Los Angeles […]

    Aol’s front page, “click bomb”

    Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

    Aol.com put this feature on Chinese food myths on its front page for six hours on Sunday and it cause a jump in traffic to this blog, and a sharp (but quick) bump on Amazon (~200 to 124). As a guy who worked for Gap’s Internet properties observed, when they have a shopping deal featured […]

    Fortune Cookie Chronicles in Hawaii

    Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

    A friend sent me a photo of her 90-year-old dad reading The Fortune Cookie Chronicles galley while on vacation in Hawaii.

    Book Musings, hawaii, readers