The salty snacks, unlikely yarns, and auspicious readings at this year’s AAWW food and books festival

The shorter woman said, “You have such a good insang??!” The other pressed, “But you do go to church, don’t you?”

This Iranian American novelist wants to live forever.

The author of The Boss thinks she might be the only person left on this planet without an iPod—but her poems are certianly full of music.

A taste of what’s in store at this year’s Page Turner Festival

One Saturday afternoon in Sunset Park, I was sitting on the cement rim of a drained wading pool, watching elderly Chinese couples foxtrot to staticky melodies playing from a beat-up cassette player.