![]() ![]() And finally, when I decided no one was going to ever read my stories, I started writing them from a point of view that was closer to my actual life and, lo and behold, those stories became meaningful to me. At first I wrote something that was so different from my life about a girl from a different family, father, you know, was a professor at MIT and the mother was a well-to-do, rather bored housewife and the more I tried to get away from what was genuine in my life the worse off the stories were. ![]() One was that I decided that I wanted to write short stories just do something that mattered to me in a way of an art form. Today, we’re revisiting my conversation with author and recent National Humanities Medal Recipient, Amy Tan.Īmy Tan: Well, there are two parts of the beginning of The Joy Luck Club, the writing of it. Jo Reed: From the National Endowment for the Arts, this is Art Works. ![]()
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