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Thank you, Brooklyn! (and Haruki Murakami)

With author, scholar and Haruki Murakami translator Jay Rubin, and author, scholar and Haruki Murakami collaborator Motoyuki Shibata -- @BookCourt in Brooklyn. 




Missed us? Video is here, courtesy of Lawrence Brenner.






[photo by Susan McCormac Hamaker]

Thank you, Brooklyn! (and Haruki Murakami)

With author, scholar and Haruki Murakami translator Jay Rubin, and author, scholar and Haruki Murakami collaborator Motoyuki Shibata -- @BookCourt in Brooklyn. 




Missed us? Video is here, courtesy of Lawrence Brenner.

Monkey & Murakami, Sunday, 9/15, NYC

Will be here.

Others need not apply

The MONKEY has landed in Canada

Thank you, Berkeley!

Thank you, San Francisco!

The MONKEY has landed in California

"Studio 360" Japan redux on NPR this weekend

"This is Their Youth," my story on Japanese youth culture and pathologies for "Studio 360:"









"Nerd's Paradise," my story on Akihabara, virtual worlds, and mass murder, w/Kurt Andersen:

from California to Canada -- to NYC: Monkey Biz Fall Tour 2013

California

Thursday, September 5:  The University of San Francisco, Center for Pacific Rim, 5 - 8 p.m.


Friday, September 6:  The University of California, Berkeley, Institute of East Asian Studies, 1 - 3 p.m.


Canada

Monday, September 9:  York University, “Japanese Authors at York,” 12 - 2 p.m.


Tuesday, September 10:  Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, “Japanese Literature Today,” 7 - 9 p.m.


Wednesday, September 11:  The Japan Foundation, Toronto, “Japanese Literature at Home and Abroad,” 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.






New York City



Sunday, September 15:  BookCourt, Brooklyn, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Haruki Murakami,” 4 - 6 p.m.