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34 reviews
Kip Fulbeck

Chronicle Books, 2006

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I'm one of those people who gets uncomfortable when filling out applications and reaches the dreaded "Race" section that says "Select only one." I guess I'm supposed to pick whichever one I identify with the most. I usually skip that section and come back to it at the end. After staring at it for a solid half-hour, I hastily pick something and put the paper out of my sight. I try not to think ...

Permanence: Tattoo Portraits by Kip Fulbeck

5 reviews
Kip Fulbeck

Chronicle Books, 2008

It's about the stories... not the ink
This is a LOT more book than I thought it would be. In putting this together, the author wasn't (really) interested in the ink itself, the interest is in the stories _behind_ the ink. You'll find stories about remembering, about not _wanting_ to remember, about the bad, about the good, about the funny, about the serious. A nice touch here is that each picture of person/ink is accompanied by a ...

Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography (Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies)

18 reviews
Kip Fulbeck

University of Washington Press, 2001

Straight up and no apologies!!!
We read this for my class on contemporary pop fiction. Almost everyone really liked it especially the pop culture and frankness about sex and Asian-American politics. No one writes about this stuff so that was refreshing and way better than a lot of the other books on the reading list. It does push you though so watch out. Two people just couldn't get over it or themselves. One girl kept ...