Tidbits
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Yellow won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Members Choice Award from the Asian American Writers' Workshop.
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In spring 2006, Don did a reading for the Four Stories series, run by the inimitable, quite charming Tracy Slater, and she's put up an mp3 of the reading. Don read an edited version of a little story called "A Preference for Native Tongue," which appeared in the Summer 2006 edition of The Kenyon Review.
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A little short-short story by Don called "Abercrombie & Fitch" was in the Spring 2004 issue of the online magazine failbetter.
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Don's stories from Yellow were in two anthologies about Asian American writers: Charlie Chan Is Dead 2, edited by Jessica Hagedorn, and Screaming Monkeys, edited by M. Evelina Galang.
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The story "The Possible Husband" won an O. Henry Award (2002 edition, edited by Larry Dark).
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The story "The Price of Eggs in China" won a Pushcart Prize.
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Listen to a radio interview with Don, conducted by Wanda Adams, the Honolulu Advertiser Book Editor, for KIPO in Honolulu, 89.3 FM, on her program "The Sandwich Islands Literary Circle." (You'll need a RealPlayer plug-in. The interview proper with Don begins at 5:38. Here's another link to the show. Scroll down to the radio show for January 26, 2003.)