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Jamie Lin

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About Me

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pennames: Jamie Lin, Alia Wind


Been published or will be published in Runesmag, Zygote In My Coffee, Lyrica, Wildchild publishing, High Contrast, Static Movement Online, Long Story Short, Chick Flicks Ezine, Laura Hird, Barfing Frog, Cherry Bleeds, Verbsap, Outcry Magazine, the Beat, Insolent Rudder, Dogmatika, Edifice Wrecked, Hecale, The Flask Review, Storyglossia, Mud Luscious, Clockwise Cat, Yellow Mama, Pequin, Sub-lit, Blood Lotus, Art&Prose Magazine, Dogzplot, Outsider Writers, Blood Orange Review...
I go crazy for stacks of post-its, hot coffee, weird metaphors, lists about better things, water running, and quotes by believers of nonviolence.
I dislike most people and a lot of other things. They give me high blood pressure.

My Interests



Currently Reading:
The Hemingway Women, Bernice Kert
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
D.H. Lawrence, An Unprofessional Study, Anais Nin
War Talk, Arundhati Roy
Half Of A Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

I'd like to meet:

completely in love with dead writers and certain living ones
"Here's every reason to believe that SH would have gone the same way if the US hadn't insisted on devastating the civilian society, strengthening the tyrant, and compelling people to rely on him for survival...If there had been any interest in allowing Iraqis to determine their own fate, these considerations point the way. But there wasn't. Hence the call that their torturers must use violence to "liberate them." An intelligent Martian watching this would be bemused, to put it mildly." - Noam Chomsky
"At the root of human responsibility is the concept of perfection, the urge to achieve it, the intelligence to find a path towards it, and the will to follow that path if not to the end at least the distance needed to rise above individual limitations and environmental impediments." - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Music:


Books:


Absolute Favorites:
The God of Small Things by A. Roy
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Women by Bukowski
Anais Nin's Diaries
Patricia Highsmith: Beautiful Shadow by Andrew Wilson
Ask the Dusk by John Fante

Heroes:


I look up to these two:

My Blog

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Far away in a dry heap full of refugees, a thirteen-year-old girl offers herself in exchange for graying breadcrumbs for her family of eight. The body of her father was blown away long ago. No one bot...
Posted by Jamie Lin on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:04:00 PST