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John Culbert

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Tokyo, Japan
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John Culbert was born in Tokyo and raised in Geneva, Switzerland. He is the author of Paralyses, winner of the 2011 Modern Language Association Scaglione Prize for French Studies. His short stories have appeared in ZYZZYVA, Wave Composition, The Manchester Review and Harvard Review. A book of collected short fictions, The Purgatory Press & After the End, was published in 2013 by Perfect Edge Books. He lives in Vancouver, where he teaches in the French Program at the University of British Columbia.

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Compared to other media, academic publishing is dilatory. My new book, Proximities: Literature, Mobility, and the Politics of Displacement, has a publication date of April 2025, but I sent the final manuscript to the press in January, a few days before the American presidential inauguration. Given the warning signs, I knew Proximities would see the day in a world transformed. The book was written

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