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The clarity of prose

By Butch Dalisay | September 22, 2014 - 12:00am

The Clarity of Things” is the title of the new short story I finished a few weeks ago, which will soon be coming out...

Arts and Culture

Big Apple layover

By Alfred A. Yuson | August 13, 2012 - 12:00am

 Barely 72 hours of a layover in New York followed eight days in Smallville, USA, capping what was an exhilarating sojourn that featured baseball, nature treks, shopping and meals galore, as well as meet-ups...

Arts and Culture

Homecomings

By Alfred A. Yuson | January 27, 2003 - 12:00am

Over the holidays we had a surfeit of parties, clan gatherings, assorted reunions and get-togethers. And we can bet our proverbial bottom dollar (American, Canadian, Australian or Singaporean), mighty mark or darling...

Arts and Culture

Memories of Doreen

By Alfred A. Yuson | July 1, 2002 - 12:00am

When I start handling a course on critical writing for the Communications department of Ateneo this Thursday, it’ll be with the pang of loss and a ripple of trepidation. Of course we’ll begin by observing...

Arts and Culture

On the Fil-Am front

By Alfred A. Yuson | April 22, 2002 - 12:00am

Some of our friends among Fil-Am writers have been making waves, as usual. Congratulations are in order. First off, our longtime buddy Luis Francia has received the 2002 PEN Center Open Award for his book of essays,...

Arts and Culture

Pinoy identity: The fish-eye view

June 11, 2001 - 12:00am

Luis H. Francia may be said to be the quintessential Pinoy-Am. Migrating to New York in his 20s, and steadily "making it" there so that now he can make it anywhere, Luis or Luigi as we once called him has turned...

Arts and Culture