Novelist, essayist, satirist, literary provocateur, polyamorous pansexual China-based anti-Trump American expat.
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American massage
After long experience in East and Southeast Asia, the author turns his attention to the massage scene in his home country.
The Kitchens of Canton. A novel
Dystopian satire distilling the worst of our present and future into a strangely seductive maze of a story.
Foreign devils on the loose in China: A review
How Quincy Carroll’s Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside stacks up against other recent China expat classics.
Massage diary: Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam
Wending my way through Mekong River territory to sample some of the world’s most varied massage offerings.
Lotus: Updating the great Chinese socialist realist novel
Satirical review of the latest addition to Chinese socialist realist fiction.
Facebook, rococo vulvas, and the pornographic imagination
What happens when wayward algorithms are allowed to censor content on social media.
