I’ve been pretty bad at updating this page recently. Partly it’s just time constraints, partly being between projects and not having anything concrete to report. However, before the list becomes too unwieldy, here’s a few articles and reviews that have appeared over the last few weeks. Something more concrete when it sets. On Kazuo IshiguroContinue reading “Ishiguro, Dylan and Other Stories”
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Books of the Year
‘Tis the season for end of year lists so Freight have put together a list of the books their staff and writers have been enjoying this year. We were limited to two books apiece, which made the task almost impossible, but in the end I went with Andrew Raymond Drennan’s The Limits of the World and KazuoContinue reading “Books of the Year”
New Books by Wonderful Writers
I’ve had a week off work and, writing half a short story aside, have been letting my mind unwind from the exertions of finishing the last novel. Mainly I’ve spent my time lying in the park reading. Near our apartment there’s an ancient burial mound (Jomon period, roughly 1000BCE – 300BCE) that makes for aContinue reading “New Books by Wonderful Writers”
Kazuo Ishiguro
A double whammy of Kazuo Ishiguro in the Japan Times today. My review of his new novel, The Buried Giant and a retrospective look at An Artist of the Floating World in the ‘Essential Reading for Japanophiles’ series.
Turnstile, The Making of …
The evolution of a short story can be a bizarre path. This month a flash story I wrote, Turnstile, is included in Eastlit Magazine. I’m really pleased to finally get this story accepted because it’s been with me a long time, and not always in a good way. When I first came to Japan in 2005Continue reading “Turnstile, The Making of …”
Iain Maloney 