Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography by Kip Fulbeck + Author Profile [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
01 Jun, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Memoir, Repost
The Kip Club
Kip Fulbeck is not your average performance artist. At age 35, he’s a tenured professor at UC Santa Barbara, does outreach programs for at-risk kids, was a nationally ranked swimmer, and he...
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