Asian-American literature is boring because liberalism is the mother-of-all identity shredders and our literary elites are approval-seeking strivers

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Thoughts on Christopher Jesu Lee's seminal 'Asian-American Psycho'

I’m watching my high school teacher cry as she rotates the massive CRT television strapped to a black metal stand on wheels so that we can’t see anything more after catching a glimpse of the planes flying into the towers. She’s too upset to continue watching the live coverage and in a moment of maternal instinct (we will all watch the footage when we get home anyways) she turns off the machine to spare us the distress that is currently leaking out of her tear ducts into thin clear streaks mapped down her face in twinned vertical lines. I’m an adolescent male whose primary reference points…

Asian-American literature is boring because liberalism is the mother-of-all identity shredders and our literary elites are approval-seeking strivers

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