So here’s my book cover for My Year of Meats. Enjoy!
(The Japanese writing behind her is an assortment of chapter headings from the original text of The Pillow Book, something that both female protagonists are influenced by.)

Filched from my Asian American Lit blog. Interesting how Uncanny Valley just keeps turning up. New Media Studies, the recent adaptation of Beowulf, Asian American Literature… perhaps this is an issue that will become increasingly relevant as our technology advances. Is it time to re-address the issue of replacement? Can people celebrate art while feeling threatened?
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I can’t believe that nobody has posted about this before now, but hey, more fun for me! Asian ball-jointed dolls are a fascinating phenomenon, and their popularity is now widespread in this country as well. …