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…
Continue reading...Figuratively as well as literally. When I got a whole bunch of comp copies of both editions of Strange Pictures, for more than I knew what to do with, the first place I went was to the library to see if I could donate some…
Continue reading...The Philosophy of Translation by Damion Searls Yale University Press I learned about this book from a post on Bluesky, which included the a quote about translation as reading that sparked something in my brain. I had to read more, because I personally view translation…
Continue reading...As I become more and more a "literary" translator, I find myself beginning to approach reading as a professional duty, even as I remain steadfastly fixated on choosing books that I think will actually be interesting. This book, a collection of horror stories by a…
Continue reading...I seem to be catching up on myself with these posts (and messing up the numbering) but here is another of my Japanese language columns for the Setouchi Times newspaper. It's about autumn in Japan versus autumn in my home. It's a bit of fluff,…
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