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BOOKNOTES Lecture SeriesSince August 2004, Good Day Books has hosted BOOKNOTES, a monthly series of lectures presented on Sunday evenings by authors of books about Japan, past and present, and Japanese, famous and obscure. To be admitted to a BOOKNOTES presentation by an author, a prospective member of the audience must purchase from Good Day Books a new copy of the book on which the author's presentation will be based. Each BOOKNOTES presentation to date has been followed by a lively question-and-answer session and a book signing. A BOOKNOTES presentation by a famous author (e.g., Donald Keene's presentation on Frog in the Well) or on a topical subject (e.g., Akihiko Matsutani's presentation on Shrinking-Population Economics) is typically sold out well before the date of the presentation. SEATING IS LIMITED. Don't show up on the evening of a BOOKNOTES presentation without a ticket. Contact Good Day Books before the date of the presentation to learn whether seats are available for that presentation.
  
Edward Seidensticker Donald Richie Donald Keene
24 October 2004 30 October 2005 26 November 2006
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Speaker: Ry Beville, translator of Nakahara Chuya's Poems of Days Past
Topic: The Poetry of Nakahara Chuya
When: Starting at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, 27 July 2008
Admission: Buy a copy of Poems of Days Past from Good Day Books Ry Beville has translated two books of Nakahara Chuya's poetry, Poems of the Goat (American Book Co., 2002) and Poems of Days Past (American Book Co., 2005). Beville's translations of Nakahara and other modern Japanese poets have appeared in a Norton world poetry anthology, literary journals, and Japanese newspapers. A Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, Beville is now doing research at the University of Tokyo on form and practice in modern Japanese poetry. He frequently contributes to Heso, a bilingual Japanese culture magazine, and maintains a website devoted at Nakahara Chuya, www.nakaharachuya.com. When not writing or doing research (which is, perhaps, too often), he plays blues guitar.
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