Julie Checkoway, author of "Little Sister: Searching for the Shadow World of Chinese Women), has written from Boston, Baltimore, Athens, Georgia, Houston, Iowa City, LA, the UK, and the PRC. She now reports from the seemingly unlikely but richly storied vantage point of Salt Lake City, Utah, where she lives with her husband and two children.

Blog Entries by Julie Checkoway

His Best Role Yet: McCain the Comedian

1 Comments | Posted November 2, 2008 | 08:52 PM (EST)


John McCain's performance on Saturday Night Live last night just may be the long-awaited October surprise of the election season.

That's because last night we learned---as we might have suspected---that McCain is hands-down a better actor than a politician.

While most of the credit for the show has to go...

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The Big Reveal

Posted April 16, 2008 | 03:23 PM (EST)


Next week my documentary, Waiting for Hockney, is fortunate to premiere at the TriBeCa Film Festival. My producing team---which includes Geralyn Dreyfous of the Oscar-winning Born into Brothels---and I have been waiting to reveal at last this outrageously funny and beautiful story about a working class guy from Baltimore with...

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What the Death of Gordon B. Hinckley Means for Utah Democrats

Posted January 28, 2008 | 05:23 PM (EST)


When I heard from a friend this morning that Hinckley was dead, iconic images of the Jodi-Foster-obsessed-would-be-assassin of Ronald Reagan flew to mind: the blonde pre-crime Hinckley posed in front of the White House; the bespectacled young man in handcuffs; the older Hinckley escorted by Secret Service agents out of...

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