Possible Clues:

• Oriental writer in The Listener?
• Something corny cut by Irish writer, one from Dublin or Antrim?
• Bay Stater or Garden Stater
• Ecstasy at a minimum with a more severe oriental person
• Opposite of westerner
• Maybe Bostonian writer divides attention
• Eg Asian editor initially more rigid about article
• Connecticut Yankee, e.g
• Oriental seamen collectively on drug during festival
• Perhaps a Maine inhabitant always keeping behind