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Speaker: Michael Hoffman, author of Birnbaum: A Novel of Inner Space Michael Hoffman has existed on the fringes of Japanese society since 1982, when he first came to Japan, intending to stay only a year. In 1992, a fortuitous phone call from someone he didn't know led to his being recruited to write for The Daily Maini- Hoffman is the author of four books of fiction. In the novella Solitude, the last of eight tales in his collection The Empty Cafe (Authorhouse, 2001), Hoffman's protagonist returns home after 22 years to confront a dilemma soluble only by murder. His short story collection, The Coat That Covers Him and Other Stories (Authorhouse, 2004) prompted the The Daily Mainichi to write, "[Hoffman is] one of the most gifted word- Of his novel Nectar Fragments (Authorhouse, 2006), The Japan Times wrote, "Hoffman writes about the minutiae, the motes that float in the air, perceptible only when we pause to take note"; and Forward Magazine wrote, "Despite the short form, Hoffman's characters are richly multi-dimensional and his choice of each word, each phrase, signifies with meaning and purpose." Birnbaum: A Novel of Inner Space (Printed Matter Press, 2008), as its subtitle vaguely implies, portrays the human mind as irrecon- Your ticket of admission to Michael Hoffman's BOOKNOTES presentation "Imagined Reality vs Reported Reality" will be a copy of Birnbaum: A Novel of Inner Space, purchased from Good Day Books. Paperback copies of Birnbaum are available from Good Day Books for „2100 each, tax included. |
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