The Draft

by Michael C. Boxall

Short story about the end of a 1960s childhood in Massachusetts

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First published January 4, 2012

About the author

Michael C. Boxall was born in England and studied English and American literature at Warwick University, after which he became a trainee editor with a documentary film company in London. When he won the Eisaku Sato Foundation prize for a paper on Japanese-European relations he was invited to Japan and subsequently became a journalist. After winning the United Nations University Prize for writing on the impact of new media he studied communications in graduate school at the University of Washington. An internship at Harper’s confirmed his interest in magazines and he later returned to Tokyo as editor of Intersect, an English-language monthly about Japan. As well as writing for print he has worked in multimedia and Star Sites, about the significance of archaeoastronomy in five different cultures, was named educational CD of the month by Newsweek Interactive. In 2003 he was one of two joint winners of the $25,000 Lupton New Voices in Literature award for a proposal for a non-fiction book entitled Driven by Desire: Sex and the Spread of New Media. He has also won prizes for short fiction. The Great Firewall will be followed by a second China-related thriller, Final Cut.