 | Amy Tan - Writing from Personal Experience Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/10/On_Writing_Amy_Tan_in_Conversation_with_Roger_Rosenblatt Bestselling author Amy Tan discusses the importance of drawing on personal experiences when creating fictional stories and characters, and explains how her own family experiences have influenced her writing. ----- Amy Tan speaks as a part of "Roger Rosenblatt and Friends: On Writing" during the 2008 Chautauqua Institution morning lecture series. Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Opposite of Fate, and Saving Fish from Drowning. She has also written two children's books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat. The latter became a children's television series for PBS called "Sagwa." Amy is a member of the literary garage band, The Rock Bottom Remainders, for which she sings the Nancy Sinatra classic, "These Boots Are Made for Walking" to raise money for after-school literacy programs for inner city kids. Tan's rendition of the pop culture classic can be heard on the CD Stranger than Fiction, which benefits the PEN Writers Fund. |
 | FORA.tv Staff Favorites - Amy Tan FORA.tv syndication editor Maureen Olund discusses her fondness of Amy Tan and showcases the featured program On Writing: Amy Tan in Conversation with Roger Rosenblatt from the Chautauqua Institution. Complete video of Amy Tan in conversation with Roger Rosenblatt: http://fora.tv/2008/07/10/On_Writing_Amy_Tan_in_Conversation_with_Roger_Rosenblatt FORA.tv Culture Section: http://fora.tv/section/culture FORA.tv Blog: http://foratv.blogspot.com/ |
 | Series 3 / Episode 7 - Amy MacDonald Interview Series 3 / Episode 7 - Amy MacDonald Interview - The Album Chart Show |
 | Writers on Writing This video is a series of quotes from writers about writing. I have used something similar in a summer writing institute our teachers attend for professional development. It could also be used in a secondary writing workshop as prompts for writing or discussion about writing. ***See more educational videos by TeacherTube Member josmith at www.TeacherTube.com*** |
 | Writing Your First Copy http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/tdc/day04/ How to write copy for promotional marketing and ideas: http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/tdc/day04/ |
 | Dave Barry - Why You Shouldn't Make Fun of North Dakota Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/09/20/Dave_Barry_s_History_of_the_Millennium_So_Far Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist Dave Barry identifies what is, in his words, a common "theme" running throughout his career. ----- Dave Barry discusses "Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)." So much has happened in our aughts already, it is imperative that we take a moment to review Dave Barry's year-by-year history of the millennium. He has, with great insight and courage, taken the time to record these turbulent times. For those with "outrage overload," this is a chance to laugh at it all - Politics and Prose Dave Barry is a humor columnist. For 25 years he was a syndicated columnist whose work appeared in more than 500 newspapers in the United States and abroad. In 1988 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Many people are still trying to figure out how this happened. Dave has also written a total of 30 books, although virtually none of them contain useful information. Two of his books were used as the basis for the CBS TV sitcom "Dave's World," in which Harry Anderson played a much taller version of Dave. Dave plays lead guitar in a literary rock band called the Rock Bottom Remainders, whose other members include Stephen King, Amy Tan, Ridley Pearson and Mitch Albom. They are not musically skilled, but they are extremely loud. Dave has also made many TV appearances, including one on the David Letterman show where he proved that it is possible to set fire to a pair of men's underpants with a Barbie doll. - Dave Barry Official Website |
 | Chinese Author Wins Japanese Prize CHAN: Moving onto Tokyo, Japan where a Chinese author has won a prestigious literary award for a novel she wrote... in Japanese. This is a first for a Chinese. Let's take a closer look. STORY: Chinese author, Yang Yi wins the prestigious Japanese Akutagawa literary prize for her novel, revolving around the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations and the post- Tiananmen lives of those who fled China. A native of Harbin in northeastern China, Ms. Yang started learning Japanese when she moved to Japan, nearly twenty years ago. Ms. Yang says writing in Japanese was a natural choice for her. [Yang Yi, Chinese Author]: "I chose to write a novel in Japanese simply because I can not find literary contests in which I can write in Chinese." She picked the Tiananmen Square incident as her subject because she witnessed the event on TV when she was visiting her family in China. Her novel, "Toki ga nijimu asa" or "A morning when time blurs," is staged in China and Japan. It is about the fate of two Chinese college students who participated in the demonstrations at Beijing's Square nearly 20 years ago, which ended in a bloody army crackdown. One of the students remains in China, while the other student moves to Japan and heads a pro-democracy campaign, protesting against China's plan to host the Olympic Games. Despite the storyline, Ms. Yang said she did not have any political motivations for writing the book. [Yang Yi, Chinese Author]: "There are no political intentions behind this novel. As an author, I prefer to write a story in an objective manner. What I am interested in is depicting the wavering human emotions affected by those events." Japanese critics and the public have been full of praise for her novel. "It is very difficult to get a literary award even for most Japanese. So it is amazing." Sales of her books have doubled since she won the award. |
 | How to Become a Freelance Writer : How to Write a Query Letter for a Novel Learn how to write a letter for a novel and how to be a freelance writer in this free video series on job skills and freelance writing. |
 | 50 Years of Research on Writing: What Have We Learned? Three of the world's leading scholars in the field of writing instruction and research examine the state of knowledge in the field and its relevance to questions about teaching and learning writing at all levels of education Series: "Voices" [11/2006] [Humanities] [Show ID: 12014] |
 | Lakshmi Pratury: The lost art of letter-writing www.ted.com Lakshmi Pratury talks about letter-writing, and shares a series of notes her father wrote her before he died. This short talk may inspire you to set pen to paper too. |
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