Article: THE NO JOY BOOK CLUB SHE'S RICH, SHE'S FAMOUS. SHE'S ON TOUR. AND AUTHOR AMY TAN IS NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT.(LIFE & LEISURE)

Byline: MIKE CAPUZZO Knight-Ridder

Amy Tan, rich and famous author of ``The Joy Luck Club,'' swaddled like a hip philosopher-priestess in black silk pajamas and glittering baubles and jewels, is riding in a chauffeured car uptown in New York to deliver a speech on political correctness (she's not in favor of it) when she remarks, in that attention-catching way of hers, that book tours make her want to kill herself.

The diminutive Asian-American writer (she's not in favor of the pigeonhole ``Asian-American writer,'' either) is wearing an old green tunic over the pajamas, a $15 collapsible black hat, a bold smear of red lipstick and swathes of black ...

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