Jill McCorkle, a short story writer and novelist, said, "You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters, so that there's a real entry into the story - that some quality speaks to the individual."
While Kishibe is widely known around Japan and other eastern countries, he was not particularly well known in the US until he performed at the 32nd Walnut Valley Festival.
Most of the time at the bridge table, if you think the right thought at the appropriate moment, you will make the best call or play.
Celebrate St Patrick's Day with a pint or five imbibed to the sounds of five of Beijing's hottest up-and-coming bands at the venerable Yugong Yishan near Zhangzizhonglu subway station in Dongcheng district.
This year Shanghai will host the 4th leg of the Tour from. Synonymous with glamour and new beginnings, Shanghai is renowned for its record-breaking skyscrapers which have sprung up where just twenty years ago there was only farmland.
Three decades ago, a group of inquisitive London musicians took a long hard look at that curious institution we call the Orchestra, and decided to start again from scratch.