Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the US, by Roland Kelts. A review in The Australian.
Grotesqueby Natsuo Kirino. I just bought this one. A New York Times review.
In other activites, I plan to join the Japan-America Society in Washington DC. I live near it and I will enroll in its language school. I'm very excited about this. This blog will help focus me on something that I have had a lifelong interest in, Japanese writers and writing, especially its post-war fiction, ever since being exposed to some translations of Japanese books on Guam, while in the Navy, that weren't widely available in the U.S. (The is pre-Internet, before you could order anything you ever wanted online.) My list of links, writers and otherwise, isn't very long yet but my goal is to build this out gradually. Rushed enthusiasm dissipates quickly.
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