Astronomers believe in something they cannot see. In that belief, in their discovery, there are lessons for all fiction readers and writers. Based on the gravitational effects [...]
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Is this you? You've started a novel. The first page makes you want to read more. The first chapter has you settling into a comfortable chair, ready to go along for [...]
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by Sandra Park It’s the early 1950s in Hawai‘i. A multi-generation Korean-American family crams into a house in the Coconut Grove suburb of windward O‘ahu, across the mountains from Honolulu. With to [...]
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I sometimes ask my piano students what parts of the body we use to play the piano. Their answers begin with the obvious one (fingers, hands) and then move on t [...]
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Hawaii should have a subscription series of talks by leading national authors.

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