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A New Chapter: Black Passenger Journals

With the roller coaster ride that is the republishing of Black Passenger Yellow Cabs still ongoing (follow my Facebook feed for up to date info on that), I’ve had less to write about on these pages for some months. However, … Continue reading

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Where Is The Black Passenger?

It’s been a while since my last blog, but I am sure you can appreciate my being busy with trying to bring ‘Black Passenger’ alive through a VOOK (see my previous post on that here). My last book signing was … Continue reading

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Audio Excerpts: The Making of a Rice King (part 2)

There are many ways to experience Black Passenger Yellow Cabs: Of Exile & Excess in Japan, from traditional paperback to the digital era eBook and Kindle format. The Vook format is also moving along well (watch out for more news … Continue reading

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The Great Mystery of the Disappearing Derrière

The mystery is finally solved. “Which mystery?” you’re probably asking yourself, completely oblivious to this quandary suspendended in the minds of many. Well, in my mind anyway: It is the mystery of the yellow woman’s shrinking posterior in America. Here … Continue reading

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Happy New Year! + Conversations Book Club – 1/14/11

Happy New Year! To all readers, followers, and anyone that has supported my writing and Black Passenger Yellow Cabs since it was published, my thanks and appreciation. Wishing you happy and successful 2011. As to my first activity of the … Continue reading

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Audio Excerpts: The Making of a Rice King (part 1)

There are many ways to experience Black Passenger Yellow Cabs: Of Exile & Excess in Japan, from traditional paperback (currently available at a discounted holiday rate on here on Amazon.com) to the digital era eBook and Kindle format (Kindle now … Continue reading

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Yellow Fever: The Distinction of Addiction

In this next interview segment with Jamie Paquin, we discuss the key distinction between mere passion and the all consuming addiction for Asian women so vividly chronicled in Black Passenger, Yellow Cabs. Looking at issues of control, the critical difference … Continue reading

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Conversations Live! Interview with Cyrus Webb

  Last night I called in to Blog Talk Radio for an interview with Cyrus Webb, discussing my experiences in Japan and some of the issues raised by Black Passenger, Yellow Cabs. You can listen to the interview via the … Continue reading

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Of Republishing & Independence

A curious thing happened on the interstate 10 east yesterday. Whilst driving to the Los Angeles County fair I was suddenly, out of the blue, struck by disappointment over the decision by Simon and Schuster not to republish Black Passenger. … Continue reading

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Thanks and Appreciation

Minna Sama, konnichiwa and welcome once again to the official Blackpassenger blog. It is unbelievable how time has flown. It’s already two years and four months since I left Japan for the States to publish Black Passenger, which has been … Continue reading

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