{"id":162658442,"date":"2026-05-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=162658442"},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:16:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:16:46","slug":"friday-links-the-book-of-surviving-the-camps-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=162658442","title":{"rendered":"Friday Links: The Book of Surviving The Camps Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cWhat devil was known to be so cowardly as to exclusively menace a young boy? Who was the cowardly monster that would not risk showing himself in the flesh? Who preferred the fog and primordial terror of a child\u2019s dreams?\u201d &#8211; Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, \u2018The Book Of Kane And Margaret\u2019<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hey, it&#8217;s NBA conference finals time! How about that Dylan Harper? Julian Champagnie and Keldon Johnson, utterly fearless? Stephon Castle, being awesome even when he commits way too many turnovers and stupid fouls? Devin Vassell, holding it all together? Oh, and a seven foot five guy did this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wemby hits CRAZY LOGO 3 to force 2OT vs OKC in Game 1 of WCF\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BNNiTCUwMAM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s get to the literature before I have a heart attack. I don&#8217;t care that OKC evened the series two nights ago. Also I&#8217;m writing this before the Knicks&#8217; inevitable stomping of the Cavs in Game 2. As Patrick Redford said, the <a href=\"https:\/\/defector.com\/these-nba-playoffs-have-been-fantastic\">Cavs-Pistons round two was mutual fraudmaking<\/a>. I will enjoy the game tonight (last night to you), but nothing is getting me jacked like Spurs-Thunder. Anyway, to literature!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What I&#8217;ve Been Reading This Week<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A novel written by poet\u2014are there any more exciting words in all of literature? Yet this is more like a novel in stories, maybe. It&#8217;s an AWP pickup from the FC2 table, always a good stop. It&#8217;s also a book by a former <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/good-at-emotions-featuring-kiik-araki-kawaguchi\/id1524056726?i=1000737230049\"><em>The Line Break<\/em> guest<\/a>\u2014and hey look at that, we&#8217;ve got a new <em>The Line Break<\/em> podcast this week (<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/bob-is-getting-married-bob-is-getting-married\/id1524056726?i=1000768541964\">Apple<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/0BshOTen6xqug0tLR4lYAM?si=3ftdoVf_SvOzkw4JMehBtQ\">Spotty<\/a>). But we&#8217;re talking about this book right now, this novel-in-stories written by a poet and published by FC2. Aren&#8217;t you drooling? I was drooling. I&#8217;m talking, of course, about <em>The Book Of Kane and Margaret<\/em> by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_7257-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"a book, The Book of Kane and Margaret by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, on a blanket\" class=\"wp-image-162658469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_7257-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_7257-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_7257-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_7257-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_7257-1320x1760.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_7257-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Book of Kane and Margaret by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>The Book Of Kane And Margaret <\/em>by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi:<\/strong> about 50 pages into this book, I pulled out my phone and typed \u201cMacondo in a U.S.-run internment camp for Japanese-Americans?\u201d After finishing the book, I\u2019m not sure if that\u2019s totally right, but it\u2019s not far off. Kane Araki and Margaret Morri are two names in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gila_River_War_Relocation_Center\">Gila River internment camp<\/a>, but who they are changes each chapter. Sometimes they are teenaged lovers, elderly lovers, or a divorced couple. Sometimes they are gorgeous, sometimes their appearance is unremarkable. Sometimes Kane sprouts black wings and Margaret communes with the devil. In the dedication page, Kane and Margaret are Kiki\u2019s real-life grandparents. The point is, don\u2019t go looking for overarching narrative or easy metaphor. Each chapter presents a new version of Kane and Margaret. If you want to view this as quantum fiction, no one is stopping you, but the novel (mercifully) does not treat itself as the text of the multiverse. There\u2019s no grand triumph, either. They pull scams over on internment camp guards, especially securing contraband whiskey and cigarettes. But there\u2019s no escape, or destruction, or homecoming. Any reference to life after internment sees the characters\u2019 homes ransacked and vandalized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An interesting thing I\u2019m not sure how to express properly: this novel is singular and inventive, but I can\u2019t say I haven\u2019t read anything like it before. This approach to fiction\/poetry is a mini-genre in itself, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever read a novel like this. Usually this convention\u2014[character name] is a different version of themselves from the previous sentence\/paragraph\/stanza\u2014is a short story or poem, often a list poem. Kiik, for example, has a series of poems in his second book, <em>Disintegration Made Plain And Easy<\/em>, called \u201cabout the author.&#8221; These poems feature lots of often hilarious and contradictory statements about, well, the author. Using this convention for a whole novel is fascinating and a brave choice. At times I caught myself yearning for a little more of a narrative to hang onto, but I think that\u2019s more a me problem than the book&#8217;s problem. We\u2019re coming off National Poetry Month, and I\u2019m craving a good narrative novel. If we were coming off National Pulp Fiction Month, I\u2019d probably be like WHY AREN&#8217;T ALL BOOKS THIS BOOK. I very much want to stress that Kiik is a funny and inventive and totally unique author whose books are a blast to read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s becoming a theme on this blog to say that a book is about living during something terrible and tragic going on, with emphasis on <em>living<\/em>. Not to be obvious, but there\u2019s an inherent tragedy to being in an internment camp. This novel is not specifically and single-minded focused on this, though. Each chapter is a story of life being lived, of people being people in spite of overarching circumstances. Part of the reason I\u2019m highlighting this in books is because one-note books can be boring and overwhelming. The other part, I think, is that I\u2019m attracted to stories of people going on despite the ostensibly worst thing happening to them, people enjoying the taste of fruit or the feeling of swimming or the smell of lilacs despite whatever else is happening. The ostensible theme of the blog this year is anarchism and punk rock. Living in spite of, creating community in spite of. I\u2019m not going to say something cringe like \u201csurviving an internment camp is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=162658043\">punk rock<\/a>,\u201d because that\u2019s not what I\u2019m getting at. More like that sentiment from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=162657954\">George Hurchalla<\/a>&#8216;s book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=162658308\">doing something<\/a> because if you don\u2019t, there will never be anything to do again.\u201d No matter their extraordinary and dehumanizing circumstances, the Kanes and Margarets and everyone else at Gila River still have that ungovernable humanity to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LINKS!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something to listen to while you browse? Maybe some JYOCHO?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JYOCHO - sugoi kawaii JYOCHO (Official Music Video)\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GAo8vJfSx0s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This week in ICE: <a href=\"https:\/\/southsideweekly.com\/starting-from-zero-again\/\">&#8216;Starting From Zero Again&#8217; <\/a>by Dave Byrnes in <em>South Side Weekly<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/2026\/05\/19\/daca-recipients-renewal-delays-trump-administration-immigration-law\/\">DACA Renewals Are Being Delayed \u2014 Here\u2019s What To Know<\/a> by Aydali Campa in <em>Borderless<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/unraveledpress.com\/ten-years-back-chicago-legal-reform-group-lambasts-cook-county-states-attorney-eileen-oneill-burke-in-new-report\/\">Chicago legal reform group lambasts Cook County State\u2019s Attorney Eileen O\u2019Neill Burke<\/a> in new report by Dave Byrnes in <em>Unraveled<\/em>,  <a href=\"https:\/\/blockclubchicago.org\/2026\/05\/21\/trial-date-for-broadview-protesters-vacated-just-days-ahead-of-expected-start\/\">Charges Against Broadview Protesters Dropped After Feds Admit To Grand Jury \u2018Errors\u2019<\/a> by Madison Savedra and Melody Mercado, <a href=\"https:\/\/blockclubchicago.org\/2026\/05\/21\/judge-denies-petition-to-appoint-special-prosecutor-to-probe-ice-abuses\/\">Judge Denies Petition To Appoint Special Prosecutor To Probe ICE Abuses<\/a> by Molly DeVore, and <a href=\"https:\/\/blockclubchicago.org\/2026\/05\/21\/feds-accuse-chicago-man-of-assaulting-ice-agent-using-his-vehicle\/\">Feds Accuse Chicago Man Of Assaulting ICE Agent Using His SUV by Stephen Montemayor<\/a> in <em>Block Club<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>From the end of 2025, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kdonhoops.com\/steve-and-marty\/?ref=on-hoops-newsletter\">a wonderful Kelly Dwyer piece on guitars and amps<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/writeordiemag.com\/author-interviews\/alex-niemi\">Alex Niemi: On Novels by Poets, the Hyper-Reality of the Internet, and the Importance of Sonic Suspense in Her Translation of Laura Vazquez\u2019s Novel \u2018The Endless Week\u2019<\/a> by Corinne Cordasco-Pak in <em>Write Or Die<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/southsideweekly.com\/beating-the-algorithmic-pulse\/\">Beating the Algorithmic Pulse<\/a> by Ellie Gilbert-Bair in <em>South Side Weekly<\/em>. Subhed: From purchasing songs on Bandcamp to visiting listening bars, here are some ways you can help Chicago\u2019s music scene thrive beyond streaming. Hey, at Lazy &amp; Entitled, we like to tell you to break the algorithms. Good to know other Chicagoans are doing the same.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Really, really loved <a href=\"https:\/\/1900hotdog.com\/2026\/03\/nerding-day-seth-greens-stolen-nft-show%f0%9f%8c%ad\/\">Lydia Bugg&#8217;s deep dive on <em>1-900-HOTDOG<\/em> into Seth Green&#8217;s ill-fated NFT show<\/a>, which helped kill NFTs! Like Lydia, I generally like Seth Green&#8217;s work. Even if I like <em>White Horse Tavern<\/em> for mean reasons (people who get into NFTs should be humiliated and the NFT industry needed to die), chalk up another win for Richie Tozier.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;re you still doing here? Need to groove to some Happy Imaeda to carry you into the weekend? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Happy Imaeda - Spruce Specter\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kb76Op0F3rI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you work in the service industry, may you clean up in tips this weekend. May one of your customers dig you a pool. May you sprout bat wings and fly away when your shift ends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sorry you got an email, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat devil was known to be so cowardly as to exclusively menace a young boy? Who was the cowardly monster that would not risk showing himself in the flesh? 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