{"id":2294,"date":"2008-12-14T00:28:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T00:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2008-12-14T00:28:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T00:28:36","slug":"jetaa-ny-book-club-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/14\/jetaa-ny-book-club-update\/","title":{"rendered":"JETAA NY Book Club Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>JETAA NY Book Club co-reviver <strong>Michael Glazer<\/strong> writes:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>JETAA NY successfully kicked off its New York book club last Wednesday night, Dec. 10. The group discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ryu_Murakami\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Murakami Ryu&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> Akutagawa Prize-winning novel <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Almost_Transparent_Blue\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Almost Transparent Blue<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/mostlyfiction.com\/images\/cover_L-I\/kinshu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"213\" \/>Murakami&#8217;s provocative novel fueled an energetic, funny, sometimes tense and stimulating exchange of ideas while we snacked on pizza and drank oolong tea. The two-hour conversation ranged in topic from talking about ethnic stereotypes to bug eating, the US military in Japan, The Doors, Japanese escapism and Admiral Perry&#8217;s black ships as the group tried to figure out if <em>Blue<\/em> is literary genius or pop culture trash.<\/p>\n<p>Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, January 21 at 7pm, and we will discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teru_Miyamoto\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Miyamoto Teru&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kinshu-Autumn-Brocade-Teru-Miyamoto\/dp\/0811216330\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Kinshu<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. You can find the book online at <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Kinshu\/Teru-Miyamoto\/e\/9780811216753\/?itm=1\" target=\"_blank\">bn.com<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kinshu-Autumn-Brocade-Teru-Miyamoto\/dp\/0811216756\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1229172463&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">amazon.com<\/a>. Contact <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"mailto:msg@alumni.unc.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Glazer<\/a> or <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"mailto:%20jessicalangbein@yahoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Langbein<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JETAA NY Book Club co-reviver Michael Glazer writes: JETAA NY successfully kicked off its New York book club last Wednesday night, Dec. 10. The group discussed Murakami Ryu&#8217;s Akutagawa Prize-winning novel Almost Transparent Blue. Murakami&#8217;s provocative novel fueled an energetic, funny, sometimes tense and stimulating exchange of ideas while we snacked on pizza and drank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40,53,15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-events","category-jetaa-chapters","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-B0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}