by Leslie Li | Jul 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
Welcome to the third installment of DOUBLE THUNDER! The story picks up where it left off at the end of installment #2: Bittersweet learns about Hardu’s life as a ricksha boy and petty criminal—and much else besides—after finding his letter sewn inside a siming...
by Leslie Li | Jul 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Welcome back to the serialized blog of my novel DOUBLE THUNDER, sequel to BITTERSWEET (Tuttle Publishing). If you read the first installment, you were (re)introduced to Bittersweet who, in airing a siming blanket, discovers an epistolary book concealed inside it....
by Leslie Li | Jul 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
To those of you who are familiar with my webpage, welcome back! And to those of you who are new to it, welcome! Having recently returned from six weeks in Bali where I was recovering from two years of pandemic-induced near-solitary confinement, I have a special...
by Leslie Li | Mar 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Music lovers and fans of the Kim Loo Sisters, good news! The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will present a program about two girl groups—the Kim Loo Sisters and the Kim Sisters—as part of their AMS/Rock Hall Lecture Series. You’ll be able to watch the free event...
by Leslie Li | Mar 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
My mother [doing the split] and three maternal aunts—the Kim Loo Sisters—were a jazz vocal quartet popular in the 1930s and ’40s and the first Asian American act to star in Broadway musical revues. They were also biracial. Their father Louie Shear Gim was born...
by Leslie Li | Mar 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
While the Year of the Rat (2020) was all about survival (indeed!), and the Year of the Ox (2021) was all about anchoring ourselves in a new reality (and what a reality!). the Year of the Tiger is a year of POWER, PASSION and DARING. It’s about making big...
