New Interviews and Tour Dates!

Chicago-based reporter Claire Glass did a massive interview with me about Hip Hop Apsara: Ghosts Past and Present that she divided up into two separate interviews—one, here, with Gapers Block, and another with Story Studio, here. Here's an excerpt:

It's funny because I had this person in my life I really cared about, and we separated for a while, and then were in contact again. And while we were in contact, I was writing these essays, and of course I was trying to write them about this place that's really far away in the world that I love, but I was also writing in a very literal and descriptive way about how important this person is to me, and how even more present they felt when they were gone. As I was writing it, I sort of knew that we would part ways again, and we did. And so when I read those essays I'm completely overcome with this very raw emotion of predictive loss, of knowing in advance the contours of this important thing I was going to lose. It's not, it can't be, the same as any of the losses I describe in the essays themselves, but I think that hollowness in the chest is the same, and maybe, if that can be scaled up to the 1.7 to 2.2 million people that died under the Khmer Rouge, and a couple hundred thousand more that died in the American bombings, then maybe we can start to understand why it would be so important to go out dancing when you can, just because you're alive.

And, excitingly, the tour's coming together! Check dates here and I'll see you out at an event soon!