Charlson ong biography of michael

  • I announced a couple of months ago that I've been asked to be a resident writer at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, this fall.
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  • He was the first African American to manage a MLB team and the only man to be named MVP in both leagues.

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    Magical Encounter

    Last updated:2018-11-13

    Magical Encounter

    English Language & Literature students report on Week 1 of the SYSU Writers Residency

     

     

    Introduction

       

    The Sun Yat-Sen University Writers Residency, which has taken place each October since 2014, is committed to fostering creativity and to exploring educational practice. The program provides the space for international writers to read and write, and also allows them to engage with local people,and to be immersed in Chinese literature and Chinese culture. In addition, the program allowed the students to interview the visiting writers and to gain insight into the relationship between writing and translation by translating excerpts from their work into Chinese.

      

    In 2018, the group stayed in Yangshuo in Guangxi Autonomous Region for a fortnight, then visited the Guangzhou and Zhuhai campuses of Sun Yat-sen University to participate in  a series of academic events,

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    SMALLER AND SMALLER CIRCLES

    An Interview with F. H. Batacan (and Andrea Pasion-Flores)

    by Noel King

    “You have to find a way of tapping into your anger about the extent of suffering and injustice you encounter every day.” —F. H. Batacan

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    F. H. “ICHI” BATACAN was born in Manila and graduated from the University of the Philippines with a BA in communications and an MA in art history. After ten years of working in the Philippine intelligence community, she turned to broadcast journalism. Smaller and Smaller Circles, her first novel, won the prestigious Philippine National Book Award and is widely regarded as the first Philippine brott novel.

    ANDREA PASION-FLORES is Batacan’s literary agent and also a prominent Filipino writer. Her story ‘Love in Mini Stops’, taken from her new collection For Love and Kisses, appears in issue 8 of Contrappasso.

    Noel King spoke to these writers at the Bayleaf Hotel in Intramuros, Manila, on September

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    I keep thinking about Frank Robinson, the Hall of Fame baseball player who died at 83 three days ago. He was the first African American to manage a MLB team and the only man to be named MVP in both leagues. I’ll list some of his other achievements below, but first a personal story:

    The 1970 Baltimore Orioles (with the two Robinsons, Frank and Brooks) were one of my favorite teams of all time. That October, when they beat Frank’s old team, the Cincinnati Reds, in the World Series in five games, I had just “purchased” a tiny, tiny transistor radio, probably with Bazooka Joe bubblegum wrappers. In those days, Series games were played during the daytime during the week. I took that radio to my grade school and listened to the Series in class, with the left side of my head turned away from the teacher so he couldn’t see the thin line of the wire attached to the earbud in my left ear. I never got caught.

    That 1970 Orioles team had seven All-Stars on it,

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