Reading at Authors Live Tonight

Hey, friends, yes this is late notice, but I'm reading from Whiteout tonight at the literary event Author's Live (hosted by Jared Angel) at Bar Iznt in Sannomiya, Kobe, from 6 pm.  Other readers will be Peter Mallett, Warren Decker, and Jerry Gordon. Please consider joining us if you are free. Good food, good company, and hopefully interesting readings!

Return of Four Stories Japan!

For all you folks living in Kansai (that's western Japan for the rest of you), Four Stories Japan returns this weekend. Four Stories is a prose reading event featuring four different writers each time, and hosted by the inimitable Tracy Slater (and held regularly in Boston, semi-regularly in Osaka/Tokyo).

The readings this weekend are:

Amy Chavez, columnist for The Japan Times since 1997 and author of the books Japan, Funny Side Up and Running the Shikoku Pilgrimage: 900 miles to enlightenment

Marc Kaufman, lecturer at Tokyo's Sophia University and fiction and nonfiction writer with work in Narrative Magazine and more

Peter Mallett, university professor and freelance writer on classical music and the arts, former arts editor of Kansai Time Out, publisher and editor of Artspace, and author of the novel-in-process Appassionata

Tracy Slater, Four Stories founder and author of the book The Good Shufu: A Wife in Search of a Life Between East and West, forthcoming from Penguin's Putnam and Berkley imprints

The readings will be held at a different venue from in that past, so click on the link above to get information and directions about that. It'll be Saturday, June 29th, beginning at 5 pm, at Café Absinthe in Osaka.

The link will also lead you to MP3s from past readings in both Osaka, Tokyo, and Boston. Check it out!