name: Anastasia M. Ashman
birth_date: 1964-08-08 00:00:00
genres: Nonfiction
avg_rating: 3.77
ratings_count: 479
about: Ashman is a cultural essayist and editor. Her arts, travel and culture journalism and criticism has appeared in a wide range of publications, from international business newspapers and newsmagazines, like the Hong Kong-based Dow Jones properties The Wall Street Journal Asia and Far Eastern Economic Review, to theThe Village Voice and National Geographic Traveler. She has written about Nyonya food, reviewed Tropical Classical, an essay collection by Pico Iyer and covered a posthumous anthology by Brion Gysin. For Cornucopia, the glossy magazine for connoisseurs of Turkey, she has written about the cultural contortions of joining a Turkish family.-Wikipedia