Father Barry Martinson’s “Ghost Friends” weaves a spell-binding tale that speaks to timeless, universal experience, and tells of hardship, destitution, pain and suffering as well as compassion, understanding, love and ultimately salvation. Definitely a writer to watch, ‘Ghost Friends’ indicates Martinson has been cultivating a wonderful gift: the ability to touch the world audience. His other works are noteworthy literary and cultural treasures as well, particularly his fascinating account as a new missionary in Taiwan with Orchid Island’s Tao tribe.
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Steven Crook: Taiwan's consummate cultural notetaker
By Trista di Genova, The Wild East (Pick up a copy of next month’s ‘Centered on Taipei’ magazine to see this interview in print.) Steven Crook, a Briton who’s been in Taiwan since 1991, is an amazingly versatile freelancer. He’s worked as a government project consultant, copy editor for Taiwan
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Denis’ version: It was insane. So we’re sitting at my place hungover on a Sunday in late November. Trista’s already promised to go to this aboriginal festival, the Pasta’ay in the Hsinchu mountains. First, we cross the street and go eat mifan at the xiaoche, where there were 2 hot
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