Speaker: Roland Kelts Contemporary Japanese pop culture is Japan's equivalent of the Harry Potter phenomenon - an overseas export that has unexpectedly taken America by storm. While Hollywood struggles to fill theater seats, Japanese anime releases increasingly outpace American movies in number and, more importantly, in the devotion they inspire in their fans. But just as Harry Potter is "universal" but very English, anime is very Japanese, so very Japanese that its popularity in the United States was unex- Roland Kelts is an author of both fiction and nonfiction, an editor of the literary journal A Public Space, and a lecturer at The University of Tokyo. His articles, essays, and short stories have been published in Playboy, The Village Voice, Zoetrope: All-Story, Newsday, DoubleTake, Cosmopolitan, The Japan Times, Vogue, and Red Herring. His essays appear in two recently published collections, Gamers and Kuhaku. He was the recipient of a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in Writing and a winner of the Playboy Fiction Contest. He was a story consultant on the BBC's six-part series Japanorama, and he has just completed his first novel, Access, which will be published later this year. He has lectured at New York University, Rutgers University, and Philips Exeter Academy. He is a graduate of Columbia University and Oberlin College, and currently splits his time between New York and Tokyo. Your ticket for admission to Roland Kelts's BOOKNOTES presentation, "Anime Attacks," will be a copy of Japanamerica bought from our shop. Hardcover copies of Japanamerica may be purchased at Good Day Books for four thousand two hundred yen (¥4200) each, tax included. |
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