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                    [Title] => Migratory habits
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A character in Fil-Am author Mia Alvar’s debut short story collection, In the Country, describes writing about the Philippines as “chop suey.”

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-05 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1433574 [Title] => Lang Leav loves flights of fancy [Summary] =>

With her imagination that stretches across a variety of disciplines encompassing art, poetry and books, Lang Leav’s enchanting work swings between the whimsical and woeful expressing a complexity beneath its child-like façade. She is a recipient of The Qantas Spirit of Youth Award and was later granted a coveted Churchill Fellowship.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135996 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1339963 [AuthorName] => Girlie Rodis [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/lifestyle/sunday-life/20150315/SL/Lang-Leav.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1262774 [Title] => The Nobel Prize and I: Reaching for the top and not getting there [Summary] =>

When the Nobel Literature Prize lotto season started last Oct. 1, Victor Mather wrote in the New York Times how bookmakers in London put forward a list of odds on which writer would win the prize. Wrote Mr. Mather: “Unlikely hopefuls are the Finnish author Gosta Agren and the Filipino novelist F. Sionil Jose.”

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134336 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1314981 [AuthorName] => F Sionil Jose [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 803769 [Title] => Not just for the birds [Summary] =>

Jonathan Franzen is for the birds. Literally.

[DatePublished] => 2012-05-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 214446 [Title] => Our 80th province [Summary] => Among the most interesting (and certainly the longest) responses I got to last week’s column piece on "Writing for America" came from Noelle de Jesus, whose fiction I’ve admired and who’s now based in Singapore. Like me, Noelle went through the MFA (that’s a Master of Fine Arts degree, usually longer and more production-oriented than your typical MA) grind in the US. Her letter was so rich with detail and so expressive of what many Pinoy writers in the US go through that I thought it would be such a waste if I didn’t share it with you, so here:
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