“Interview with Ploi Pirapokin” by Amanda Weiss HIVEMIND Magazine spoke with author Ploi Pirapokin about her short story in our February 2024 issue, “IF YOU ASK ME, I SHALL COME.” HIVEMIND: What were some of your inspirations for this piece? What aspects of Tolkien’s work were you responding to in this story? Ploi Pirapokin: Tolkien’s…
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“Editorial 2.2” by Amanda Weiss Dear Reader, Welcome to our fourth issue, “Tolkien in Asia.” This issue was born in my Vertifically Integrated Project, a lab centered on the study of East Asian Media. In fall of 2022, student Zhujun Wu mentioned that she had been born in Tokyo, where she used to live on…
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