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Nevertheless, with the understanding (and the plea for forgiveness) that there are at least a hundred influences to my body of work, here are my top five literary influences right now if a gun were pointed at my head and/or if Dream Pop Origami, my choose-your-own-adventure debut memoir about mixed-race identity, AAPI masculinities, and love were about to drop on say, July 26th 2022 by Unsolicited Press. What can I say? I like what I like, but what I like is apparently almost limitless because there’s so much that I like artistically speaking, so a top-5 list feels in many ways like a lesson in self-mutilation. For example, while I enjoy an original, ambitious, beautifully written, and richly characterized literary fiction novel, I also love a good space opera video game, a bold AAPI graphic novel, a hardboiled dramatic series on Netflix, an over-the-top Bollywood flick, high school romance manga, and an indie feature that leans way too much on its dialogue, characterization, and soundtrack. For me, picking five authors compacts the sheer range of genres, sub-genres, voices, styles, languages, and media that have shaped the writer I was and the writer I’ve become. Any list I might make will be highly unstable, mercurial, both arbitrary and simplistic. Trying to pick just five of my most important literary influences is like being asked to pick just five of my favorite fingers.
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