Paul Yee is the leading chronicler of the Chinese immigration experience in Canada. He has to his credit many acclaimed books for young people, including The Jade Necklace, The Bone Collector's Son, and Ghost Train, which won the 1996 Governor General's Award. Recent titles include What Happened Last Summer (Tradewind), a collection of stories featuring Asian-Canadian teens, and Shu-li and Tamara (Tradewind), a picture book for middle readers. Saltwater City, a non-fiction book for adults, won the Vancouver Book Prize. His newest non-fiction book is Chinatown (Lorimer). Yee lives in Toronto.
Click here for
Paul Yee's
Reading Copy.
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This is a special edition of Reading Copy. It's longer (3 minutes or so, as compared to the 2 mins that the others maxed out at) and features pictures of Paul Yee performing the story Alone No Longer from his Groundwood Books collection Dead Man's Gold instead of pictures of a reading copy.
This is because Yee doesn't use a reading copy - and, given that he memorizes his stories at home, he doesn't have the marked up texts he uses as memory aids either.
I decided to use portraits of Yee because in a way, his memory (and the stories he has spooled up there) is his reading copy.
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I've really enjoyed this Hot Air blog. Thank you Ariel, and the other contributers. The interviews and audio bits have been very appealing, and a literary life-line for near shut-ins under self-imposed lock-down like me.
Thanks, Anita.
I would wish you a happy lock-down but that would sound perverse. And we're all shockingly normal here...
(heh.)
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