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I topple sideways out of a turn and slink back to where I began. “Ugh, I’m just so tense,” I whine. “My neck.” “Well,” comes Twyla’s dry virtual reply, “relax.” And she waits in impatient silence for my next attempt. I retired from dancing long ...

Amy Tan’s first job was “making up” astrology for her friend’s astrology hotline business. She later wrote ad copy, direct mail, and became a technical writer for a telecommunications company: “all the subjects I had absolutely no interest in,” Tan recalls. She turned to writing ...

At 93, after a long career as a master trumpet player, one might expect Doc Severinsen to be sitting back right now, enjoying retirement. But he's not done. After working as bandleader on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" for 25 years, Severinsen continued to ...

The mesmerizing performance from Academy Award-nominated actress and singer Andra Day in "The United States Vs. Billie Holiday" has revived interest in the hauntingly beautiful and controversial song "Strange Fruit," which Holiday first popularized in the late 1930s. The film details the numerous ways in ...

"I was alone. I found myself face to face with a huge bull - and started to run." It was an overcast summer morning in 1974 when famed neurologist and author Oliver Sacks traded in his medical coat for hiking shoes. He was determined to ...

The title of Amy Tan's famous novel was also the name of an investment club made up of Tan's parents and friends. Sandy Bremner, one of Tan's friends from childhood, describes how powerful it was for their parents to be around other immigrants from China ...

An intimate portrait of the groundbreaking writer that interweaves archival imagery, including home movies and personal photographs, animation and original interviews to tell the inspiring story of Tan’s life and career.

According to Amy Tan's husband, Lou, it was "cluelessness at first sight." At first, Tan wasn't attracted to Lou because of his big muscles. "I always feel that the amount of muscle mass detracts from the mass in the brain."

Kevin Kwan, the author of “Crazy Rich Asians,” describes how Amy Tan was the first Asian American author he read and how she paved a way forward for other writers of color to tell their stories.

Excerpt from “A Bolt from the Blue,” from MUSICOPHILIA by Oliver Sacks Courtesy of the Oliver Sacks Foundation Tony Cicoria was forty-two, very fit and robust, a former college football player who had become a well-regarded orthopedic surgeon in a small city in upstate New ...