
The more is known about a Shandong woman, the more unknowable she becomes.
American essayist and novelist based in China since 1994. Writing philosophy: downmarket, big concept, provocative, discriminating, outrageous. Ballard, Beckett, Borges, Dick, Kafka, Hesse, Melville, Mishima, Sade are influences.
The more is known about a Shandong woman, the more unknowable she becomes.
A visit to a Chinese home boggles the imagination.
A foreigner turns a Chinese girl on, a bit hastily, to LSD.
An orally induced tattoo has consequences for the woman administering it.
A sexbot needs returning to the shop for recalibration.
A hermaphrodite explains the Tao.
“I first saw her one spring day on my way to afternoon coffee near People’s University.”
“To seize the event, lock its meat and bones in my jaws and relax into the thing.”
“Success is never haphazard but only ever proceeds from comprehensive and systematic attack.”
“Kind of like Hot Wheels and tits and the Day of Judgment all rolled into one.”
“Each new walk down the stretch was charged with expectation, at once a cornucopia and a minefield of possibilities.”
“In the town center lawn is a crazy quilt of motley freaks smoking pot and playing guitar.”