SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2020
Host: Hitomi Yoshio, Waseda University
Location: Online
The virtual launch of the literary journal MONKEY New Writing from Japan, hosted by Prof. Hitomi Yoshio at Waseda University in Tokyo on October 10, 2020. After the editors’ panel (Motoyuki Shibata, Ted Goossen, Roland Kelts, and Meg Taylor), Hideo Furukawa and his translator, Jordan Smith, performed a passage from “Counterfeiting García Márquez” and Tomoka Shibasaki and her translator, Polly Barton, read the essay “Dinner at Mine.” Satoshi Kitamura performed a kamishibai trailer for “The Heart of the Lunchbox,” a graphic story featured in MONKEY 2020.
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