Amy Tan, "Amazement", new novel. Arts and Lectures Series SF
Amy Tan spoke at the Norse Theater in the Arts and Lectures Series. She is in conversation with Roy Eisenhardt. A delight as always; Amy Tan has such an unaffected delivery. She says "coincidence" has played a large role in her inspirations for her novels. She is searching for her identity; she does not want to forget people and events in her life. She likes to preserve the method of Memory and the Moment. She has been reading Walt Whitman and likes his search for "the Self". She captures memory through a photo of her grandmother sitting on her desk and from her mother's stories. Rachmaninov's third concerto, the first movement in D is her favorite and and she plays it every moring, before she starts to write. She repeats one moment continually until she is through a passage in her novel...when she sits down to write, she knows where she is, when she turns on the music. She is concerned more with e...