By MTW parent, Tan Lin, this genre-bending book is part autobiography and part cookbook. 7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary. 2004. The Joy of Cooking, explores cookbooks, photo scrapbooks, and Yelp reviews. Expand your ideas of fiction and autobiography in this book. In this book, Lin explores modes of relaxed reading, where reading is linked to yoga, disco, and cooking. Each of the book's seven sections is devoted to a particular art form--film, photography, painting, the novel, architecture, music, and theory--and includes both text and found photographs. Signed by the author with a drawing on the frontis piece. Winner of the 2010 Association of Asian American Studies Award for Literature.

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