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Few writers have appeared on the American literary scene to such sudden acclaim as the Chinese émigré Ha Jin. His first short-story collection about life in the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Ocean of Words (1996), won the Hemingway/PEN...

Ha Jin has published volumes of poetry, collections of short stories, and novels. His short fiction in Ocean of Words: Army Stories (1996) and Under the Red Flag (1997) won praise from critics and two prestigious literary prizes, the PEN/Hemingway and Fl...

Byline: Patti Thorn In J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, there's a scene in which Holden, kicked out of school, comes creeping into the family's apartment in the middle of the night to see his little sister Phoebe. Phoebe awakes, wide-eyed...

Byline: Patti Thorn His friends said he was crazy. But that didn't stop Ron Shwartz from traveling four hours by Amtrak and an hour more by rental car to arrive at William Styron's front porch unannounced one day. Not that he...

Perhaps the cable networks should be playing Kenny Loggins' This is It all day long, as the waiting is finally over for the presidential candidates from both parties. The moment of truth has also arrived for all the political junkies like myself -- who consider the U.S. presidential...