February 2025

4. ADVENTURES OF A FIRST-TIME AUTHOR: MY WRITING STRATEGIES

As I mentioned elsewhere, my first book was not based on the dissertation, and I actually researched and wrote it from scratch while on the tenure track. The difficulty of such a task forced me to follow a punishing writing routine and develop an effective writing process, as described in previous posts. But neither of […]

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MEMORABLE MUSIC: A TOAST TO THE NEW YEAR WITH PHẠM ĐÌNH CHƯƠNG’S “A CELEBRATORY GLASS OF WINE”

Happy New Year! Chúc mừng năm mới! Another year, another holiday song… Phạm Đình Chương’s “A Celebratory Glass of Wine” was one of my favorite holiday songs for the Lunar New Year when I was a kid. It was the last song on Tiếng Tơ Đồng Xuân (The Silken Strings of Spring), a Tết album

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