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Kentaro Ito
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Aaron Hoopes
Arudou Debito
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Michael Hoffman
Karube Tadashi
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Speaker:    Michael Hoffman, author of Birnbaum: A Novel of Inner Space
Topic:         Imagined Reality vs Reported Reality

When:        Starting at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, 25 May 2008
Admission: Buy a copy of Birnbaum from Good Day Books

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-
chi
's Waiwai page, which mined Japan's wild weeklies for tales of sex, crime, and the bizarre. Waiwai's decadence gradually gained acceptance in polite society and, in 2001, inspired the Tokyo Confidential column in The Japan Times, to which Hoffman continues to contribute. The Waiwai page and the Tokyo Confidential column have spawned three books: Tokyo Confidential (The East Publications, 2001), Tabloid Tokyo (Kodansha International, 2005), and Tabloid Tokyo 2 (Kodansha International, 2007).

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-
smiths based in Japan ... His prose can make the most mundane event seem gripping." This is indeed fortuitous, because Hoffman regularly serves up the mundane, with a twist.
 

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-
cilably at odds with the physical universe, a portrayal his BookNotes presentation will seek to prove beyond a reasonable doubt.

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.


Donald Richie
26 September 2004

Edward Seidensticker
24 October 2004

Mark Schreiber
27 February 2005

Christopher Earnshaw
17 April 2005

Barbara Sato
25 September 2005

Donald Richie (2)
30 October 2005

Mark Schreiber (2)
27 November 2005

Manabu Miyazaki
11 December 2005

Markuz Wernli-Saito
22 January 2006

Mark Schilling
19 February 2006

Frederik Schodt
19 March 2006

E. Seidensticker (2)
30 April 2006

Richard J. Samuels
28 May 2006

Niall Murtagh
18 June 2006

Philip Harper
30 July 2006

Akihiko Matsutani
27 August 2006

Leza Lowitz
24 September 2006

Takeshi Nakagawa
22 October 2006

Donald Keene
26 November 2006

Peter Tasker
28th January 2007

Roland Kelts
18 February 2007

Sumiko Enbutsu
25 March 2007

Genda Yuji
15 April 2007

Mark Schreiber (3)
27 May 2007

Don Kenny
17 June 2007

Timothy Hornyak
22 July 2007

Takahiro Fujimoto
2 September 2007

Sumiko Enbutsu (2)
7 October 2007

David Peace
4 November 2007

Kentaro Ito
9 December 2007

Richard J. Samuels (2)
13 January 2008

Aaron Hoopes
24 February 2008

Arudou Debito
23 March 2008

Donald Richie (3)
27 April 2008

Michael Hoffman
25 May 2008

Karube Tadashi
29 June 2008

Ry Beville
27 July 2008

Leigh Norrie
14 September 2008

Donald Keene (2)
5 October 2008

James L. Huffman
9 November 2008

Donald Richie (4)
07 December 2008

Vicki L. Beyer
25 January 2009

Mark Schilling (2)
22 February 2009

Hans Brinckmann
29 March 2009

Sumiko Enbutsu (3)
26 April 2009

Robert Whiting
24 May 2009

Mark Schreiber (4)
28 June 2009

Stephen Mansfield
26 July 2009

Eamonn Fingleton
06 September 2009

Peter Sharpe
25 October 2009

Jake Adelstein
06 December 2009

Stephen Mansfield (2)
31 January 2010

David Chester
28 February 2010

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