Erin Costello is a writer/poet, dabbler in the digital, teacher and the editor/o-founder of SpringGun Press. She walks where you do, where eroticism scours the surface of vocabularies.
"Now Japan is a very small, flat, unified world. Everything is very small and very much the same. There are no Others. It tends to be relaxing but it can also be dull. You can't meet with the New or the Strange."
Ryu Murakami's words might seem bleak to a Western audience. But to better understan