Instead, he tries very hard to Become Japanese at the same time that Japanese culture is becoming more Western, which means he's really just trying to live in his own fantasy of what he thinks Japan is supposed to be like. His family tried to send him "home" to the UK, where he wasn't born and had never lived, but it didn't stick. Black is in a tough position, because he grew up in Japan, but he can never belong there he's a perpetual foreigner. I knew I couldn't write a story About Japan without feeling like an impostor, so I built the story around that question of authenticity. So people would read these novels to learn more about English culture, but the specific details which were the most foreign had been ironed over and edited out in the name of accessibility. He's most famous as Japan's first foreign-born rakugoka, but he also published cultural "translations" of English sensation novels which abridged and retold the stories for a Japanese audience. I wanted to write about a fictionalized Kairakutei Black towards the end of his career. When people hear fantasy, they often think of a feudal past or an ultracontemporary setting. One thing that stood out about your story was its historical milieu. One cool thing about publishing "Her Last Appearance" is that I feel like I might have finally learned how to write a story less than 20,000 words long. at Berkeley: I like long, messy novels with tangents and subplots and 200 characters. Mostly, I've been working on novels I went to Clarion in 2008, so I wrote short stories for the workshop - and again when I took fiction workshops in grad school - but short fiction doesn't come naturally to me. I've been writing forever, but this was only the third story I've ever submitted. How long have you been writing and submitting? "Her Last Appearance" is your short fiction debut. (It pays to be courageous and when you see an opportunity, for go for it!) It's a great and contemplative piece of urban fantasy that you definitely need to read. It's our first time publishing a fiction debut, and her story of turn-of-the-century Japan, "Her Last Appearance" is her first published piece of fiction. Phantasm Japan is a first for us, just as it is a first for contributor Lauren Naturale.
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