If you google "good things in small packages," you bring up  a list of everything from tiny genomes to boutique wineries in Australia. Here's my personal non-Google l [...]
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Most of us have way too much on our plate. To make time to read we have to find a personal oasis, a place away from all the modern noise, then turn [...]
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Islands Linked by Ocean (Bamboo Ridge Press, 2009) is a showcase for the short story magic of Lisa Linn Kanae. Lisa is also the author of Sista Tongue (Tinfish, 2001), about which Susan Schultz wrote, “It combines the history of pidgin English in Hawaii with memoir with story telling.”

Islands Linked by Ocean is all about story telling, and Lisa tells a great story. I asked Lisa to share some of her thoughts about this new collection.

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