Lists

Inspiration

the moon, the body, body horror, bodies of water, holes, desire, yearning, the strange & supernatural & surrealist, chinese folklore, the politics of revolution & solidarity, becoming & undoing, eggs, pills, computers, computer-generated poetry, simulations

Books I Like

  • Bliss Montage by Ling Ma: strange and evocative and beautiful, one of my favorite short story collections of all time!!
  • I’m Waiting For You by Kim Bo-young: a speculative short story collection translated from Korean. Time travel, fallen gods, love that transcends time and place, it has it all!
  • Broken Stars by various authors: an anthology of Chinese Sci-Fi translated into English by the Hugo Award-winning Ken Liu. Too many gems in here for me to pick out my favorite!
  • The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins: delves into Washington’s rabid anti-communism crusade in Indonesia, Brazil, Argentina, Guatemala, and elsewhere around the world, showing how the brutal Cold War policy of state-sanctioned mass murder has shaped our current world order
  • I-Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita: experimental, ambitious, a sprawling tome that touches upon the history of Asian American Bay Area activism and its connections to the internationalist socialist/communist politics of the 70s
  • Blood in My Eye by George Jackson: a collection of letters and essays by the black revolutionary before he was killed in an alleged prison escape attempt in 1971. His essays on fascism are especially illuminating

Music I Like