“These pages are a record of my obsession with birds,” writes Amy Tan in the preface to “The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” and “obsession” is no overstatement. Her new book, culled from “nine personal ...

In an interview, Tan describes what she hopes people will learn from her book. The celebrated author of “The Joy Luck Club” and more than a dozen other works will discuss “The Backyard Bird Chronicles ...

If you know author Amy Tan for The Joy Luck Club — a novel about Chinese immigrant families in San Francisco — her new book, The Backyard Bird Chronicles, might seem like a deviation. That's because ...

She’s a novelist turned naturalist. New York Times best-selling author Amy Tan has turned her intense gaze to the world of birds and shared her private drawings and musings in a new book. Jeffrey ...

The ‘Joy Luck Club’ author talks about her obsession with birds in her backyard and what it means to write a book that isn’t about Chinese culture. For Chinese Americans of a certain generation, Amy ...

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Platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird encourage people to observe and document nature, but how accurate is the ecological data that they collect? In a new study published in Citizen Science: Theory ...