I am work­ing on a new book on my strug­gles with per­sis­tent con­nec­tiv­ity in the dig­i­tal age for Simon & Schuster.

You some­times can hear my com­men­tary on NPR through Amer­i­can Pub­lic Media’s Marketplace.

My work from The New York Times and City Room are archived online (though not in the same place). The work spans tech­nol­ogy, Wash­ing­ton, crime, food, poverty and cul­ture. One piece on the “man date” even inspired a movie.

A 2003 story I wrote for The New York Times on an immi­grant fam­ily who ran a Chi­nese restau­rant led to a book called The For­tune Cookie Chron­i­cles, pub­lished in 2008 by the the amaz­ing team at Twelve Books: Jonathan Karp (edi­tor) and Cary Gold­stein (pub­li­cist). My book, which argues that Chi­nese food is all-American, got a respectable amount of media atten­tion, in large part because of Cary’s work. I learned a lot from him and can give ample advice for authors.

Occa­sion­ally you might see an essay I write pop up here and there. One day, when we have time, I might help my friend finally write a movie script.

I am a board mem­ber of the Asian Amer­i­can Writ­ers Work­shop. I’m on the com­mit­tee for the Robert F. Kennedy Jour­nal­ism Awards. I’m also a mem­ber of the Young Lions, which is part of the New York Pub­lic Library.