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Jackson Bliss

BG Ideas

The Lives of Writers

Are You There, Ghost? It’s Me, Chiwan.

Joanna Penn

Jennifer Pastiloff

Lisa Morton

Mat Johnson

Shannon Orr

Jami Attenberg

Porochista Khakpour

Charles Kanwischer

Tera Patrick

Luke Johnson

Jerry Reed

Tim Davis

Jennifer Brody

Steven Dunn

Natashia Deón

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Michael talks with Jackson Bliss about language as consolation, time in the Peace Corps, writing three books in different genres about mixed-race identity, the choose-your-own-adventure memoir DREAM POP ORIGAMI, crafting his blended style of writing, writing the choices after each piece in the book, the influence of video games and music, the self as text, numbering, and more.Jackson Bliss is a mixed-race/hapa author of three books, all published in the past year: the story collection COUNTERFACTUAL LOVE STORIES &amp; OTHERE EXPERIMENTS (Noemi Press), the novel AMNESIA OF JUNE BUGS (7.13 Books), and and the memoir DREAM POP ORIGAMI (Unsolicited Press). His stories &amp; essays have appeared in publications like The New York Times, Tin House, Ploughshares, Columbia Journal, Guernica, Longreads, and more. Podcast theme: DJ Garlik &amp; Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.

Michael talks with Jackson Bliss about language as consolation, time in the Peace Corps, writing three books in different genres about mixed-race identity, the choose-your-own-adventure memoir DREAM POP ORIGAMI, crafting his blended style of writing, writing the choices after each piece in the book, the influence of video games and music, the self as text, numbering, and more.Jackson Bliss is a mixed-race/hapa author of three books, all published in the past year: the story collection COUNTERFACTUAL LOVE STORIES &amp; OTHERE EXPERIMENTS (Noemi Press), the novel AMNESIA OF JUNE BUGS (7.13 Books), and and the memoir DREAM POP ORIGAMI (Unsolicited Press). His stories &amp; essays have appeared in publications like The New York Times, Tin House, Ploughshares, Columbia Journal, Guernica, Longreads, and more. Podcast theme: DJ Garlik &amp; Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.

In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we have Jackson Bliss, prolific author of three books in the past 9 months, including the most recent Amnesia of June Bugs. We talk about growing up Hapa in a small town in Michigan, about the legacy of violence that is passed down &amp; how hauntings get passed down to the smallest things—even into an army man. #haunting #hapa #mixedrace #JacksonBliss #Ghosts #Paranormal

In this week's episode of Are You There, Ghost? It's Me, Chiwan, we have Jackson Bliss, prolific author of three books in the past 9 months, including the most recent Amnesia of June Bugs. We talk about growing up Hapa in a small town in Michigan, about the legacy of violence that is passed down &amp; how hauntings get passed down to the smallest things—even into an army man. #haunting #hapa #mixedrace #JacksonBliss #Ghosts #Paranormal

Jackson Bliss and The Terror of the Army Man

Jackson Bliss is an assistant professor of creative writing at BGSU. His genre-bending fiction focuses on being mixed-race in a global world. This episode features a conversation about exploring identity through writing and a reading from his forthcoming novel, The Amnesia of June Bugs.   Transcript: Intro: This podcast features instances of explicit language. If you are listening with children, you may want to save this conversation for later. Intro: From Bowling Green State University and the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, this is BG Ideas. Musical Intro: I'm going to show you this. It's a wonderful experiment. Jolie Sheffer: Welcome to the Big Ideas Podcast, brought to you by the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society and the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University. I'm Dr. Jolie Sheffer, associate professor of English and American culture studies and the director of ICS. Jolie Sheffer: Today I'm joined by Dr. Jackson Kanahashi Bliss. Bliss is an assistant professor in the creative writing program here at BGSU. He's published in The New York Times, The Boston Review, Ploughshares, Tin House, and many other publications. He earned his MFA from the University of Notre Dame and his PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Southern California. Today we have the pleasure of hearing him read from his new work, Amnesia of Junebugs. Thanks for joining me today, Jackson. Jackson  Bliss: Happy to be here. Jolie Sheffer: You are both a creative writer and a literary scholar. How do you think of your creative writing as being shaped by scholarship on Asian American literature? Are there other ways in which you see your work as interdisciplinary? Jackson  Bliss: Yeah, it's a funny marriage, actually, and I think it's an accidental one, because, in the beginning, I wrote most experimentally, and then when I started studying Asian American studies, I realized there was a sort of strong bent towards experimentalism and activism and how it connects to ethnic nationalism, ethnic studies, academic studies, and academic centers and universities. So this was completely accidental. I didn't intentionally sort of imitate the preferred genre of activist-minded APIA literature. It just sort of happened that way. But the more I studied Asian American studies, particularly works like Immigrant Acts by Lisa ... What's her last name? Jolie Sheffer: Lowe. Jackson  Bliss: Lisa Lowe. Yeah. It sort of made me realize there's a strong sort of push against the stylistics of the empire, which tends to be connected to linear narratives and coming-of-age stories. That made me want to write that story, particularly because I found it a little bit both historically informed, but also generically arbitrary that a particular sub-genre of fiction would supposedly work so well, right, in something that we are actively trying to deconstruct. Jackson  Bliss: I feel like writers like Viet Thanh Nguyen are perfect examples of people who said, "No, you can have a narrative arc and do a lot of important work instead of deconstructing standardized, sort of imposed European models of narrative." Jackson  Bliss: So I think all of those things appealed to me a lot. So it became much more conscious the more I wrote fiction, I think. Yeah. But in the beginning, it was totally accidental and organic. Jolie Sheffer: Your peace Dukkha, My Love is an experimental hypertext novella, created for the web. Can you describe our audience, what that term means? What is an electronic novella, and what can people expect when encountering a text like that? What were you hoping to explore, both formally and thematically? Jackson  Bliss: I think part of

Jackson Bliss is an assistant professor of creative writing at BGSU. His genre-bending fiction focuses on being mixed-race in a global world. This episode features a conversation about exploring identity through writing and a reading from his forthcoming novel, The Amnesia of June Bugs. Transcript: Intro: This podcast features instances of explicit language. If you are listening with children, you may want to save this conversation for later. Intro: From Bowling Green State University and the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, this is BG Ideas. Musical Intro: I'm going to show you this. It's a wonderful experiment. Jolie Sheffer: Welcome to the Big Ideas Podcast, brought to you by the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society and the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University. I'm Dr. Jolie Sheffer, associate professor of English and American culture studies and the director of ICS. Jolie Sheffer: Today I'm joined by Dr. Jackson Kanahashi Bliss. Bliss is an assistant professor in the creative writing program here at BGSU. He's published in The New York Times, The Boston Review, Ploughshares, Tin House, and many other publications. He earned his MFA from the University of Notre Dame and his PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Southern California. Today we have the pleasure of hearing him read from his new work, Amnesia of Junebugs. Thanks for joining me today, Jackson. Jackson  Bliss: Happy to be here. Jolie Sheffer: You are both a creative writer and a literary scholar. How do you think of your creative writing as being shaped by scholarship on Asian American literature? Are there other ways in which you see your work as interdisciplinary? Jackson  Bliss: Yeah, it's a funny marriage, actually, and I think it's an accidental one, because, in the beginning, I wrote most experimentally, and then when I started studying Asian American studies, I realized there was a sort of strong bent towards experimentalism and activism and how it connects to ethnic nationalism, ethnic studies, academic studies, and academic centers and universities. So this was completely accidental. I didn't intentionally sort of imitate the preferred genre of activist-minded APIA literature. It just sort of happened that way. But the more I studied Asian American studies, particularly works like Immigrant Acts by Lisa ... What's her last name? Jolie Sheffer: Lowe. Jackson  Bliss: Lisa Lowe. Yeah. It sort of made me realize there's a strong sort of push against the stylistics of the empire, which tends to be connected to linear narratives and coming-of-age stories. That made me want to write that story, particularly because I found it a little bit both historically informed, but also generically arbitrary that a particular sub-genre of fiction would supposedly work so well, right, in something that we are actively trying to deconstruct. Jackson  Bliss: I feel like writers like Viet Thanh Nguyen are perfect examples of people who said, "No, you can have a narrative arc and do a lot of important work instead of deconstructing standardized, sort of imposed European models of narrative." Jackson  Bliss: So I think all of those things appealed to me a lot. So it became much more conscious the more I wrote fiction, I think. Yeah. But in the beginning, it was totally accidental and organic. Jolie Sheffer: Your peace Dukkha, My Love is an experimental hypertext novella, created for the web. Can you describe our audience, what that term means? What is an electronic novella, and what can people expect when encountering a text like that? What were you hoping to explore, both formally and thematically? Jackson  Bliss: I think part of