Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography

Award-winning videomaker, performance artist, & pop-culture provocateur Kip Fulbeck has captivated audiences world-wide with his mixture of high comedy & personal narrative. In this text, Fulbeck taps into his Cantonese, English, Irish, & Welsh heritage, weaving a fictional autobiography from 27 closely linked stories, essays, & confessions. By turns sensitive & forceful, passionate and callous, Fulbeck confronts the politics of race, sex, & Asian American masculinity head-on without apology, constantly questioning where Hapas fit in a country that ignores multiracial identity.  
Raised in southern California by a Chinese-born mother & a Caucasian
father, Fulbeck pushes the conventions of literary form as he simultaneously draws from, recreates, & fabricates his own life
history. His range of experiences--from college professor to youth outreach volunteer, blues player to surfer & lifeguard--informs his witty & humane writing. Like himself, his protagonist is a young man shaped by the conflicting mores, stigmas, desires, & codes of male
conduct in America. He searches for & mismanages love & independence, continually experimenting with sex along the way. Sometimes hilarious, always heartfelt, surfing the trivia of pop culture  & sound bits, his inner voice shifts continually among the real, the
perceived, & the imagined.