The East Is West: The Best Chinese Restaurants in Southern California - New York Times<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n \n100 Notable Books of the Year - The New York Times Book Review - New York Times<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n \nBerkeley poet Lerner writes from heartland<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n \nRebecca Loudon<\/a>: Wallace Stevens once said that the act of writing poetry was actually a very intense form of reading.\n<\/p>\n \nWhat's the actual Wallace Stevens quote?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The East Is West: The Best Chinese Restaurants in Southern California – New York Times: THERE are probably more Chinese in Los Angeles than in any metropolitan area outside of China. (The same very likely could be said of Mexicans, … Continue reading THERE are probably more Chinese in Los Angeles
\nthan in any metropolitan area outside of China. (The same very likely
\ncould be said of Mexicans, Iranians, Koreans, Japanese and more, which
\nis what makes Los Angeles the best international eating city in the
\nworld.) Fifty years ago, most Chinese immigrants were concentrated in a
\ntypical downtown Chinatown, which still exists, but more as a relic
\nthan a vibrant community. <\/ul>\n It can be challenging to convince students that
\nreading and writing are inextricable, that writing is just a very
\nintense form of reading, as Wallace Stevens said. <\/ul>\n