{"id":8854,"date":"2009-10-19T17:08:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T21:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=8854"},"modified":"2009-10-19T17:08:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T21:08:44","slug":"%e2%80%9ctwo-authors-send-readers-on-mysterious-journeys-through-japan%e2%80%9dchin-music-press-book-reading-at-capitola-book-cafe-oct-20-santa-cruz-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/19\/%e2%80%9ctwo-authors-send-readers-on-mysterious-journeys-through-japan%e2%80%9dchin-music-press-book-reading-at-capitola-book-cafe-oct-20-santa-cruz-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTwo Authors Send Readers on Mysterious Journeys Through Japan:\u201dChin Music Press Book Reading at Capitola Book Caf\u00e9- Oct 20 (Santa Cruz, CA)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chin Music Press<\/strong>, the Seattle-based publisher owned and run by Bruce Rutledge (MEF Program Chiba-ken, 1985-87)<\/strong> is headed to Northern California as author Todd Shimoda<\/strong> reads from his latest novel, Oh! A mystery of mono no aware<\/strong>, at the Capitola Book Caf\u00e9 <\/strong>(1475 41st Avenue in Capitola) on Tuesday, October 20th at 7:30pm<\/strong>. Shimoda joins anthropologist and writer Liza Dalby<\/strong>, who will be reading from Hidden Buddhas: A Novel of Karma and Chaos<\/strong>. This event is free to the public.<\/p>\n

The Capitola Book Caf\u00e9 hosts Shimoda and Dalby under the title of \u201cMysterious Journeys Through Japan\u201d<\/strong> with discussion of their usage of Japan as a setting for emotional paths towards moments of enlightenment. Here\u2019s a blurb about both books from the event webpage<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Oh! by Todd Shimoda was selected as an NPR Summer Reading pick and combines visual artistry with patient and brilliant storytelling. Zack Hara is a technical writer trudging through life in LA until he leaves everything to travel to Japan. There, searching for an emotional life, Zack becomes entwined with a tragic poet, a sensual but disillusioned woman, and young people form suicide clubs\u2014 all propelling him down a dangerous path. \u201cA triumphant kick in the pants for anyone who doubts the future of paper-and-ink books.\u201d \u2014 Lucia Silva<\/em><\/p>\n

Liza Dalby returns to Book Caf\u00e9 with a novel that Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of A Geisha, describes as \u201c\u2026(her) best work yet; with its fascinating story of characters caught up in a world they themselves don\u2019t understand.\u201d Hidden Buddhas explores the karmic connections between Japanese fashion, pilgrimage, dying honeybees, murder by blowfish, and the Buddhist apocalypse. Something of a Buddhist Da Vinci Code, Dalby\u2019s stunning new novel travels to the unknown corners of Japan and through time to expose a mystery you will never forget!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Check out previous JetWit posts about Bruce Rutledge here<\/a> and a Japan Times review of Oh! here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On a related note, Bruce is joined at Chin Music Press by two other JET alums: designer Joshua Powell (Saitama-ken, 2005-07)<\/strong> and PR intern Jessica Sattell (Fukuoka-ken, 2007-08).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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