{"id":5327,"date":"2009-04-22T18:41:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T18:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=5327"},"modified":"2009-04-22T18:42:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T18:42:56","slug":"nytimes-book-reviews-manga-and-creative-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/22\/nytimes-book-reviews-manga-and-creative-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes Book Reviews:  Manga and Creative Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawnandquarterly.com\/index.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drawnandquarterly.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/Tatsumi_doghouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Thanks to JETAA Pacific Northwest alum David Kowalsky for sharing the following two JetWit-relevant book reviews from the NY Times:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/15\/books\/15garn.html?ref=books\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Manifesto of a Comic-Book Rebel<\/em><\/strong> <\/a> &#8211; Review and comment on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Drifting-Life-Yoshihiro-Tatsumi\/dp\/1897299745\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1240425313&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A DRIFTING LIFE<\/em><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawnandquarterly.com\/artStudio.php?artist=a41e32e169aff2\" target=\"_blank\">Yoshihiro Tatsumi<\/a>; Translated by Taro Nettleton&#8211; a memoir that looks back at the roots of <em>gekiga<\/em>, Japanese comic book art&#8217;s dark side.\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawnandquarterly.com\/blog\/2006_07_01_archive.php\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for a blog interview with photos with Tatsumi-san and Taro Nettleton.)<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/15\/books\/15garn.html?ref=books\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/19\/education\/edlife\/books-t.html?_r=1&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=tin%20house&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>The Ponzi Workshop<\/em><\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Commentary on the creative writing movement and reviews of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Program-Era-Postwar-Fiction-Creative\/dp\/0674033191\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1240425282&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing<\/em><\/a> by Mark McGurl and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Writers-Notebook-Craft-Essays-House\/dp\/0979419816\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1240425246&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Writer&#8217;s Notebook: Craft Essays From Tin House<\/em><\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Writers-Notebook-Craft-Essays-House\/dp\/0979419816\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1240425246&amp;sr=8-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/images.barnesandnoble.com\/images\/37970000\/37971119.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Bonus<\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/22\/dining\/reviews\/22brief1-001.html?emc=eta1\" target=\"_blank\">A NYTimes restaurant review of <strong>Inakaya<\/strong><\/a>, the Japanese restaurant on the ground floor of the NY Times building in Manhattan where the show is perhaps more important than the food.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; 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