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Noah Richler writes in the Times about Vincent Lam’s short stories and his fortuitous relationship with Margaret Atwood, bringing Lam to a whole new audience abroad.
Lam asked Atwood if she would read his stories.
“Do you want me to tell you something nice, or something honest?” Atwood answered.
“I was writing my book and not sure how to move forward,” Lam says over lunch at a busy Vietnamese workingman’s diner in his West Toronto neighbourhood. “I thought: ‘Well you know how to write, so why not share some of your wisdom with me?’”
Lam laughs: “One good thing about medicine is that it teaches you, when you don’t know something, not to be afraid to ask people who know more than you. Medicine teaches you to be humble.”
Later, Atwood e-mailed Lam the message: “Congratulations, you can write.”
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February 27th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Aw, it’s a feel-good story for the ages…
Like Ol’ Yeller, without the rabies and the killing.
Yet.
February 28th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
250,000 copies!
February 28th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Atwood!
(Henighan?)
February 28th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
wtf???
February 28th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
There’s a lot of backstory here. Go searching in the archives under “Henighan”.
February 29th, 2008 at 7:02 am
i shoulda knowed…. thanks, george.