Words. Pictures. Cats.
Translator of Strange Pictures, Strange Houses, Strange Buildings, Strange Maps etc.
Author of Discovering Yamaguchi Sake
It might be a bit premature, but as it looks like I'm moving into the year-end holidays a little early, I think this is as good a time as any to look back on my work life during 2022 Despite the ongoing pandemic, this was…
Continue reading...Yamaguchi has the pretty, is all I'm saying. Pictures include fall leaves at Kuroiwakyo (Black Rock Gorge) north of Hikari (pics 1-5), Hofu Tenmangu shrine (6-8), and the mountains around Heta outside of Shunan (9, 10).
Continue reading...A Sense of Place: A journey around Scotland's whisky by Dave Broom Photography by Christina Kernohan I first saw this book mentioned on the author's Instagram, where he used something like the phrase "sense of place, not terroir." That is what grabbed me. The growing…
Continue reading...That's how many books I've been editing this last week. What a strange, blessed life I live now. It goes a long way to ease the pain of finding out that a super exciting possibility I was looking forward to early next year fell through.
Continue reading...My translation of classic Kindaichi Kosuke mystery Akuma ga Kitarite Fue wo Fuku (Translated as The Devil's Flute Murders) is done and off to the editors! It's scheduled to come out from Pushkin Vertigo Press June 29, 2023. This was an absolute joy to translate, though I worry…
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