{"id":806,"date":"2008-04-17T09:12:26","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T14:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/a-literary-ethnic-combo-deal-at-columbia\/"},"modified":"2008-04-17T09:12:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T14:12:26","slug":"a-literary-ethnic-combo-deal-at-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/a-literary-ethnic-combo-deal-at-columbia\/","title":{"rendered":"A literary ethnic combo deal at Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/columbiawithsugi.JPG\" title=\"Columbia University Students on April 15\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/columbiawithsugi.JPG\" title=\"Columbia University Students on April 15\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/columbiawithsugi.JPG\" alt=\"Columbia University Students on April 15\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/columbiawithsugi.JPG\" title=\"Columbia University Students on April 15\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did a presentation at Columbia with my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vasugi.com\">Sugi,<\/a> whose new novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9781400066698\">Love Marriage<\/a> about the many generations of a Sri Lankan family was published by Random House last week. The logic of the pairing was\u00c2\u00a0 somewhat tenuous: we both wrote books, our parents were from the great continent of Asia, and we knew each other from the school paper.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless very successful. The South Asian student group got their numbers out in impressive forces. Standing room only (again, it&#8217;s about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/the-butt-to-seat-ratio-the-key-to-readings\/\">butt-to-seat ratio<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>As I put it. You got fiction and non-fiction, brown and yellow. It was like a literary ethnic combo meal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a presentation at Columbia with my friend Sugi, whose new novel, Love Marriage about the many generations of a Sri Lankan family was published by Random House last week. The logic of the pairing was\u00c2\u00a0 somewhat tenuous: we both wrote books, our parents were from the great continent of Asia, and we knew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-d0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}