{"id":24923,"date":"2012-05-04T12:05:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T16:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=24923"},"modified":"2014-04-26T10:18:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T14:18:43","slug":"justins-japan-roland-kelts-makes-new-monkey-business-at-japan-night-joes-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/04\/justins-japan-roland-kelts-makes-new-monkey-business-at-japan-night-joes-pub\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin’s Japan: Roland Kelts Makes New \u2018Monkey Business\u2019 at Japan Night @ Joe’s Pub"},"content":{"rendered":"
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JET alum and ‘Monkey Business’ editor Roland Kelts will appear at Japan Night @ Joe’s Pub in New York May 6. (Kaz)<\/p><\/div>\n

By<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>JQ\u00a0magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0editor\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Justin Tedaldi<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi<\/a>, 2001-02) for Examiner.com. Visit his\u00a0Japanese culture page\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0for related stories.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Regular visitors to NoHo\u2019s St. Mark\u2019s Place are known to enjoy many of the Japanese pubs and eateries that dot the street down to Avenue A. This Sunday (May 6), neighbor\u00a0Joe\u2019s Pub<\/a>\u00a0will host live music and the latest English release of a notable Nippon-centric literary anthology.<\/p>\n

Japan Night @ Joe’s Pub<\/a>, held at the eponymous nightclub a stone\u2019s throw below Astor Place, promises an unforgettable night of transcultural readings, music and live performances. On tap for Sunday: revered Japanese writers Masatsugu Ono, Tomoko Shibasaki, and award-winning author and translator Motoyuki Shibata will arrive from Tokyo to share the stage with American authors Stuart Dybek, Kelly Link, and Canadian translator, scholar and editor Ted Goossen.<\/p>\n

The scriveners\u2019 summit will celebrate the second Issue of\u00a0Monkey Business International<\/em><\/a>, the latest English-language edition of the acclaimed Japanese literary magazine that Pulitzer-winning author Junot D\u00edaz calls “one of the year’s best publications” and Luna Park Review dubbed “one of the seven best literary magazines of 2011.”<\/p>\n

Emceeing is JET alum (Osaka-shi, 1998-99),\u00a0Japanamerica<\/em><\/a>\u00a0author and\u00a0Monkey Business<\/em>\u00a0contributing editor\u00a0Roland Kelts<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(click here<\/a>\u00a0for an exclusive interview conducted with Kelts last year), who describes the literary project as \u201call about dear friends calling upon me to be a bridge between the worlds I inhabit, write about and know best\u2014giving me an enormous opportunity to feel a momentary spurt of self-worth.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the complete story,\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0JQ\u00a0magazine\u00a0editor\u00a0Justin Tedaldi\u00a0(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi, 2001-02) for Examiner.com. Visit his\u00a0Japanese culture page\u00a0here\u00a0for related stories. Regular visitors to NoHo\u2019s St. Mark\u2019s Place are known to enjoy many of the Japanese pubs and eateries that dot the street down to Avenue A. This Sunday (May 6), neighbor\u00a0Joe\u2019s Pub\u00a0will host live music and the latest English release of a notable Nippon-centric […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[4,40,53,340,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-books","category-events","category-justins-japan","category-roland-kelts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-6tZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24923","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24923"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34767,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24923\/revisions\/34767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}