TimesTalks - Amy Tan: Changing Cultures, Enduring Ties

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Amy Tan attended her first writer's workshop, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, in 1985. In 1986, Ms. Tan's first short story, "End Game", appeared in the now defunct magazine FM Five and was later reprinted in Seventeen, attracting the attention of a literary agent who encouraged Ms. Tan to continue writing fiction. In 1989, The Joy Luck Club was published and became a surprise best seller, logging more than 40 weeks on the New York Times list. Though Ms. Tan wrote the book as a collection of linked short stories, reviewers enthusiastically and erroneously referred to the book as an intricately woven "novel". The label stuck. The Joy Luck Club was nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It received the Commonwealth Club Gold Medal and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, and it was adapted into a feature film in 1994. Ms. Tan's second book, The Kitchen God's Wife, was published in 1991, followed by The Hundred Secret Senses in 1995 and The Bonesetter's Daughter in 2001. Her first nonfiction book, The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings, was published in 2003. Ms. Tan's short stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Grand Street, Harper's, The New Yorker, The Threepenny Review, Ski, and others. In addition, she has written two children's books, The Moon Lady and Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat. The latter was developed into a children's television series, which premiered on PBS in 2001.

Robert Lipsyte, a long-time city and sports columnist for The New York Times, is now a contributing writer for the paper. He is the author of 16 books, including In the Country of Illness: Comfort and Advice for the Journey, SportsWorld: An American Dreamland, and such young adult novels as The Contender, One Fat Summer, and Raiders Night.

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