"Furtado earlier this year at the Beijing Book Fair. Order your autographed copies directly from the author: lisa.tribe.furtado@gmail.com. In this exclusive interview, the Wild East’s Trista di Genova asks author L. Farrah Furtado about her latest news, views on writing and her WIP ‘Pop-Rock-Cop’. Both local expat writers will be participating in the 2014 Taipei…
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’20 questions’ with author Trista di Genova
By Mandy Chang, Wild East Exclusives Mandy Chang interviews author Trista di Genova Q. What’s your name? Trista di Genova Q. How many people are there in your family? I don’t know. Maybe 7 billion? Q. What is your star sign? Capricorn Q. Where are you from? Tucson, Arizona USA Q: How long does it…
Read moreFer SHOW! Brushing elbows with literary genius @’The Writ VI’
No cover charge if you get to the 'Fuge by 7:45pm!!!! The Wild East / Beaux Arts The Writ VI is here, it’s coming this Saturday, and it’s gonna be amazing, man, you gotta check this out, especially if you’re a writer, beat poet (such as myself), musician, comedian what-have-you, or ESPECIALLY just a good…
Read moreTaichung Refuge ‘Writ IV’ event a Mecca for writers this weekend
Megan Dooley putting on an amazing performance at The Writ IV. Photo: Trista di Genova “The Written Word is Solace, A Sword, A Universe in a World.” – Paul Davies “The Writ: Words Over a Deep Hole” will provide a literary evening at The Taichung Refuge this Saturday, September 29, 2012. Some of the Readers/Performers…
Read more‘War on Sleep’ now available through Lone Wolf Press
“The War on Sleep,” a collection of poetry by Trista di Genova (2010) Taipei: Lone Wolf Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-986-88302-2-6 Price: 200NT/US$8/e-book US$4 STAY AWAKE IF YOU DARE… Anything that can keep your eyes wide open when you’d much rather be passed out is covered within these pages: rocky relationships, love unrequited and unsolicited, sex, drugs…
Read more‘The Great Scroll of Banciao’: BOOK REVIEW
REALITY WITHOUT THE TV: 'The Great Scroll' is an underground classic in Taiwan expat literature. “The Great Scroll of Banciao,” by Trista di Genova and Zoro A. Star. Illustrations: Mark Perrault Taipei: Lone Wolf Press, 2012 (Chapbook 2004). ITEM ID 002 ISBN: 978-986-88302-3-3 PRICE: 200NT/US$8/e-book US$4 Review by Penelope Mulligan, critic for Terminal City and…
Read more‘Taiwan in the eyes of a foreigner’, by Nick Kembel: BOOK REVIEW
‘Taiwan in the eyes of a foreigner’, by Nick Kembel Buy it on Amazon.com. Published by www.tsais-idea.com.tw By Trista di Genova, The Wild East It’s really great to see expat writers on Taiwan come out with work of this calibre. Taiwan from the eyes of a foreigner is a kind and personalized introduction to this…
Read more‘Keeping up with the War God’: BOOK REVIEW
Keeping up with the War God, by Steven Crook (Yushan Publications, 2001) Buy it on Amazon.com here This is a fantastic read for anyone who’s already perused all the guidebooks and now wants to delve into some of the deeper historical contexts behind important people, places and mind-bending customs in Taiwan. Seasoned travel writer Steven…
Read moreFr. Barry Martinson on his new novel, ‘Ghost Friends’
Review: Trista di Genova, The Wild East [Edit: Links and images to Bangkok Books no longer works 2015/1/15] This deeply metaphysical adventure picks up where Steppenwolf leaves off, reading as if Hermann Hesse himself had spent a few decades of his life as a Jesuit priest in a remote aboriginal mountain village. The scope of…
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