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“A Stories Articulation of Ideas”: On Creativity in the Academy

I began writing travel fiction ten years ago, in 2008, during my first year in graduate school, where I was beginning to specialize in…

Oct 19, 2018

“A Stories Articulation of Ideas”: On Creativity in the Academy

Oct 19, 2018

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On Writing the “Anti-Travel” Novel

“The striking originality of this novel starts with the sub-title. What to make of the declaration (warning?) that this is an “anti-travel…

Aug 9, 2018

On Writing the “Anti-Travel” Novel

Aug 9, 2018

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Why I Write Under a Pen Name

In my early twenties my mother told me that she had intended a different name for me. For all my life my given name — “Christopher Benjamin…

Jun 11, 2018

Why I Write Under a Pen Name

Jun 11, 2018

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Can You Live A Video Game? Autobiography & Living The Author In Video Games

In my previous interviews with the queer game designer Robert Yang and the co-creator of Counter-Strike, Minh Le, a frequent theme came to…

Apr 18, 2018

Can You Live A Video Game? Autobiography & Living The Author In Video Games

Apr 18, 2018

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Are Foreign Domestic Workers The Muses of Hong Kong?

Hong Kong is simultaneously colonized (by mainland China), post-colonized (by the British), neo-colonized (by global capital), and…

Mar 2, 2018

Are Foreign Domestic Workers The Muses of Hong Kong?

Mar 2, 2018

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Robert Yang: “the car in Stick Shift is gay, by the way”

I’m ecstatic this month to interview Robert Yang, the Asian American game developer responsible for erotic, intimate queer games like The…

Sep 4, 2017

Robert Yang: “the car in Stick Shift is gay, by the way”

Sep 4, 2017

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Build a New Route to China If They’ll Have You

In Gil Scott Heron’s 1970 spoken word poem, “Comment #1,” Heron berates white middle-class student movements for being “four year…

Jul 10, 2017

Build a New Route to China If They’ll Have You

Jul 10, 2017

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Notes On Teaching Creative Writing in Hong Kong

I teach at a creative writing program in Hong Kong, where we teach our students in English, which is not their mother tongue.[1] This makes…

May 26, 2017

Notes On Teaching Creative Writing in Hong Kong

May 26, 2017

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Race, Terror and Counter-Strike: Interview with Minh Le (Gooseman), Co-Creator of Counter-Strike

In 1999, Minh Le (Gooseman) was twenty-one when his pet project, Counter-Strike, was released into the world, spurring the growth of PC…

Apr 14, 2017

Race, Terror and Counter-Strike: Interview with Minh Le (Gooseman), Co-Creator of Counter-Strike

Apr 14, 2017

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A Gamer Politics for the Anti-Orange, Anti-Blonde Delinquents

In the last couple blogs I talked about Machphrasis, wherein artists represent the logic and processes of digital media, with art based on…

Mar 10, 2017

A Gamer Politics for the Anti-Orange, Anti-Blonde Delinquents

Mar 10, 2017

Kawika Guillermo

Kawika Guillermo

Kawika is the author of Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific, and Stamped: an anti-travel novel.

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