In the Dusky Kitchen with Abi

In the Dusky Kitchen with Abi

Meet the pop-up baker who’s reimagining Filipino desserts to raise funds for worthy causes.

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Why It’s Fun to Read Loida Nicolas Lewis’ ‘Why Should Guys Have All the Fun?’

Why It’s Fun to Read Loida Nicolas Lewis’ ‘Why Should Guys Have All the Fun?’

Loida Nicolas Lewis could have easily titled her book “Who Says Women Can’t Make Elephants Dance?”.

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A Rare Man Who Loves to Read Literature

A Rare Man Who Loves to Read Literature

A scene from the book of life.

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Sumptuous Fil-Am Fiction, Roots and All

Sumptuous Fil-Am Fiction, Roots and All

Get inside the Filipino American literary imagination.

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Remembering Leonard Ralph Casper

Remembering Leonard Ralph Casper

Linda Ty-Casper explains that her recent book, Will You Happen, Past the Silence, Through the Dark: Remembering Leonard Ralph Casper, is the memoir that her husband did not get to write.

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Of ‘Peeled Fruit’ and Brain Aneurysms

Of ‘Peeled Fruit’ and Brain Aneurysms

The death of a young friend led actor Xavi de Guzman and three fellow philanthropists to form Let’s Play On Foundation to raise “awareness for brain aneurysm detection and prevention.”

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When Spring Ran in Manila, a Sort of Book Synopsis

When Spring Ran in Manila, a Sort of Book Synopsis

A Japanese female athlete soothed feelings of resentment that Filipinos still harbored nine years after the Second World War.

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Marga Ortigas: Journalist with a Literary Soul

Marga Ortigas: Journalist with a Literary Soul

As journalist Marga Ortigas traveled from Asia and Oceania to Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas, an ache to write something more expansive than news reportage gnawed at her with each assignment.

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Lola’s Girl

Lola’s Girl

Holding On is the very first Filipino picture book published by Simon and Schuster, one of the top publishing houses in the U.S.

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"Lucky Rice" at Beida

"Lucky Rice" at Beida

Stuck in China upon the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus by Ferdinand Marcos, Jaime FlorCruz went to Peking University with students who would remake that country into the global economic power it is today.

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