Apr 22

NYTimes Book Reviews: Manga and Creative Writing

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Thanks to JETAA Pacific Northwest alum David Kowalsky for sharing the following two JetWit-relevant book reviews from the NY Times:

• Manifesto of a Comic-Book Rebel – Review and comment on A DRIFTING LIFE by Yoshihiro Tatsumi; Translated by Taro Nettleton– a memoir that looks back at the roots of gekiga, Japanese comic book art’s dark side.  (Click here for a blog interview with photos with Tatsumi-san and Taro Nettleton.)
  

• The Ponzi Workshop – Commentary on the creative writing movement and reviews of The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing by Mark McGurl and The Writer’s Notebook: Craft Essays From Tin House.

• Bonus:  A NYTimes restaurant review of Inakaya, the Japanese restaurant on the ground floor of the NY Times building in Manhattan where the show is perhaps more important than the food.