Rip It Up Jean-Martin Bauer separate the gossipy teapots from

separate the gossipy teapots from the kind-of-flaming swords

and a present day textured by the psychic and physical violence inflicted on black life

and the rest of the town's junior ice hockey team are about to compete in the national semi-finals--and they actually have a shot at winning

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Rip It Up Jean-Martin Bauer separate the gossipy teapots fromThe Akutagawa prize winning novel by Kou Machida, Japan's most outlandish and inventive author. Rip It Up is the first ever English translation of Kou Machida's award winning novel, an undertaking over five years in the making and the inaugural title of Inpatient Press's translation imprint Mercurial Editions. Set in a kaleidoscopic hyperreal Japan circa Y2K, Rip It Up catalogues the misdeeds and misgivings of a down and out wannabe debonair who ekes