Amy Tan on anti-Asian racism and 'Unintended Memoir,' the new PBS film about her life

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James Redford, son of Robert Redford, died before the Sundance premiere of his biodoc on author Amy Tan that's now on PBS. She talks about writing and more.

‘How to Report a Hate Crime’ comes in languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Vietnamese, with specific versions for L.A. and Orange counties.

You can’t make it happen. It’s still your readers and some fluke in the universe, so I’m always conscious [and] always grateful that whatever happened in the world of randomness did end up providing this life that I have now.“The Joy Luck Club” is what a lot of people worldwide know. But you’ve written a number of bestselling books.

Writing became full of anxiety for you at one point. Can you tell me what you tell your students in your MasterClass session about being able to weave in your emotions in terms of writing? This is a really terrible one: that I’m dead and they’re talking about me in religious terms. It’s kind of strange to me. It’s because I have a different sense of myself than I think most people would have who didn’t grow up with me like my best friend. When I’m seen as a writer of an elevated status, that seems like a fictional character. It is gratifying. And to be honest, disorienting.

There was another reason, and that is because I knew he was very, very sick and he had talked openly, admitting that he could die.I told him, “You don’t need any more uncertainty in your life.” And I said, “Go ahead and do this.” No hesitation.

 

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