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Robert Ito has written for the Village Voice, Giant Robot, and the New York Times. For ten years, he was a writer, editor, and book reviewer at Los Angeles magazine. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Hyunu, and his son, Ezekiel.
Speak, Memorates
Robert Ito
Jan 1 2010
On November 4, 1908, Kunio Yanagita, a thirty-three-year-old government bureaucrat and self-taught anthropologist, met Kizen Sasaki, an aspiring writer from the tiny village ...Divine Justice of the Weirdo Gods
Robert Ito
Aug 1 2007
Fletcher Hanks, nicknamed “Christy” after Baseball Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson, was, by all accounts, a louse. An alcoholic and a wife-beater, Hanks once kicked his ...Enormous, Fleshy Pinatas
Robert Ito
Jan 1 2006
Nobuyoshi Araki, Japan’s most famous and prolific photographer, has published some three hundred books over a forty-year career. In Araki: Self, Life, Death, a retrospective ...
