Saturday, April 30 02pm to 04pm
Asia Society
725 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021

Join a lively conversation between contemporary Japanese and American authors. Continuing an on-going collaboration with Pen World Voices, Japan Foundation, and A Public Space, Asia Society is delighted to be hosting another international writers’ dialogue. Curated and moderated by the co-founders and editors of Monkey Business, Motoyuki Shibata and Ted Goossen, together with contributing editor Roland Kelts, this year’s featured writers are Japanese authors Hideo Furukawa and Mieko Kawakami, in conversation with American authors Rebecca Brown and Linh Dinh.

Monkey Business is a unique, cutting-edge annual literary journal which showcases newly-translated Japanese as well as contributions from contemporary American and British writers. A genre defying publication, Monkey Business has presented manga renditions by top Japanese artists of Kafka, Lafcadio Hearn, and Bruno Schulz, as well as short stories and poetry by such noted writers as Paul Auster, Hideo Furukawa, Haruki Murakami, and Charles Simic.

For information and tickets visit: http://asiasociety.org

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