That was “the very first time Amy Tan was public with the ’Joy Luck Club.’” People this night seemed every bit, if not more ...

The 10th Bay Area Book Festival kicks off this weekend in downtown Berkeley with a lineup of literary and celebrity authors ...

The Roger Tory Peterson Institute announces an exhibition of Amy Tan’s original artwork and journals in celebration of her new book, The Backyard Bird Chronicles. “Amy Tan is beloved throughout the ...

Amy Tan’s best-loved, bestselling novels were all, in one way or another, born at home. Books like “The Joy Luck Club” and ...

Julianne Bell is the Food & Drink editor for EverOut, The Stranger's go-to going out guide. She lives in Seattle with a cat ...

Amy Tan might not have been the first Asian American author writing in the United States, yet she sure feels like the first ...

SINGAPORE – Chinese-American novelist Amy Tan used to be terrified of birds because of an Alfred Hitchcock thriller. The ...

Chinese-American novelist Amy Tan and Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan are among the authors featured. Read more at ...

If you didn’t know the line “Hope is the thing with feathers” had been written by poet Emily Dickinson, you might think it was the marketing tagline for ”The Backyard ...

When I came across Fifth Chinese Daughter, Jade Snow Wong’s autobiography about growing up in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and ...

President Teddy Roosvelt called the Chautauqua Institution “typical of America at its best.”More than 100 years later, the ...

For Chinese Americans of a certain generation, Amy Tan’s debut novel “The Joy Luck Club” in 1989 was revelatory. I was about 18 years old when I first read Tan’s intricate ...