Words. Pictures. Cats.
Translator of Strange Pictures, Strange Houses, Strange Buildings, Strange Maps etc.
Author of Discovering Yamaguchi Sake
A lot of the talk about translation done by people who don't think all that deeply about it—even professional translators!—focuses on things like accuracy and faithfulness, but I find that tends to work around assumptions that are worth investigating. Like, when something is "accurate," we…
Continue reading...120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative Era is an anthology with an alluringly simple theme: noir/crime/horror-ish stories built around alternative music of the 1990s. Might as well have just called it "Big Book of Gen X Midlife Crisis." I read a copy from…
Continue reading...Much like (from what I hear) the English speaking world, Japan is having a bit of a horror "moment." In print and on the screen, what has always been a pretty solid side-branch of the entertainment mix has begun to blossom into something bigger and…
Continue reading...So, as mentioned previously, my books are now in the Hikari City Public Library. But apparently that wasn't the end of my library adventures. The other day, I stopped by my neighborhood sake shop and the owner told me the library's new head, who had…
Continue reading...June 3rd is the official release date for the US edition. It is June 3rd in Japan, so I'll go ahead and announce it now, but your time zone might demand you wait a bit. Apparently the UK pub date has been listed as July…
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