Japanamerica: Our hybrid future is here
Hybridization has been the subject of this column from its inception. Since then, the United States has elected its first biracial president, and Asian influence continues to expand in the West. Being mixed remains a mixed blessing. Never at ease in one land or the other, you live in limbo, half this and half that. But perhaps that’s the best place to be as we enter the second decade of the 21st century, where paradigms and climates are changing faster than we can process them…Neither here nor there. Get used to it.
By Roland Kelts.
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Today’s quick lit [& alt.cult] links from around the web: Will Self will deliver the WG Sebald lecture, January 11 (via Vertigo) & The New York Public Library share some of William Burroughs‘ Xmas correspondence (via Maud Newton) & Is it time to revive the Xmas tradition of the chapbook? & Photocopied & stapled, The […]
3:AM Cult Hero: Arthur Cravan
“Every great artist has the sense of provocation.” From ‘Living Poetry’ by Andrew Gallix: Fabian Lloyd aka Arthur Cravan (1887-1918) put all his genius into his short life; he put only his talent (and a limited one at that) into his works. As David Lal é writes in the recently-published Last Stop Salina Cruz [3:AM‘s […]