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Stimulate your mind with illuminating essays about Japan. D. Michael Ramirez II reviews Viewed Sideways a collection of essays by Donald Richie. See our blog >
Chef and author Shiro Kashiba was interviewed on the noon-time program "The Conversation" on Seattle's NPR station KUOW (94.9fm). Host Ross Reynolds interviewed Shiro in his restaurant.
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Otaku Spaces? It's the next stunning book from Chin Music Press. Read more >
Stimulate your mind with illuminating essays about Japan. D. Michael Ramirez II reviews Viewed Sideways a collection of essays by Donald Richie. See our blog >
Chef and author Shiro Kashiba was interviewed on the noon-time program "The Conversation" on Seattle's NPR station KUOW (94.9fm). Host Ross Reynolds interviewed Shiro in his restaurant.
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Shiro: Wit, Wisdom and Recipes from a Sushi PioneerShiro Kashiba
Shiro Kashiba helped spark a food revolution nearly 50 years ago by bringing sushi to the Pacific Northwest. Today he promotes another dietary change by advocating fresh, local fare over expensive imports. This cookbook/memoir tracks Kashiba's rise from Ginza apprentice to the godfather of Seattle's sushi scene. Ann Norton takes mouthwatering photos of seasonal recipes.
From the Seattle Times: "Three days a week you'll find Seattle's pre-eminent sushi chef right where he wants to be: standing behind his sushi bar, celebrating the fact that at 70, he's doing what he dreamt of doing as a grade-school boy in Kyoto." Seattle Times article >
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Otaku Spaces
Patrick W. Galbraith
photos by Androniki Christodoulou
A fascinating new book featuring an insider's look at Japan's otaku ("nerd or über-fan") collector subculture, and a snapshot of how otaku continue to shape a global cultural consciousness. Patrick W. Galbraith, the author of the highly successful The Otaku Encyclopedia (Kodansha USA), takes us beyond the superficial stereotypes of "Weird Japan" and into the private spaces and places of self-proclaimed otaku.
In Otaku Spaces, Galbraith - a self-proclaimed otaku - has produced a groundbreaking work of reportage, utilizing interviews and dozens of photos to reveal a seldom seen side of these reclusive Japanese collectors. They talk frankly here about their collections of blow-up dolls, comic books, military paraphernalia, anime videos, and much more. Photographer Androniki Christodoulou brings the interviewees to life, intimately capturing their collections and living spaces in full-color images. Read more > Buy a copy >.
Patrick W. Galbraith
photos by Androniki Christodoulou
A fascinating new book featuring an insider's look at Japan's otaku ("nerd or über-fan") collector subculture, and a snapshot of how otaku continue to shape a global cultural consciousness. Patrick W. Galbraith, the author of the highly successful The Otaku Encyclopedia (Kodansha USA), takes us beyond the superficial stereotypes of "Weird Japan" and into the private spaces and places of self-proclaimed otaku.
In Otaku Spaces, Galbraith - a self-proclaimed otaku - has produced a groundbreaking work of reportage, utilizing interviews and dozens of photos to reveal a seldom seen side of these reclusive Japanese collectors. They talk frankly here about their collections of blow-up dolls, comic books, military paraphernalia, anime videos, and much more. Photographer Androniki Christodoulou brings the interviewees to life, intimately capturing their collections and living spaces in full-color images. Read more > Buy a copy >.
Hurricane Story
Jennifer Shaw
"You're going to love Shaw's marvelous memoir."
- The Times-Picayune
This odyssey of exile, birth and return, told through the dreamlike and haunting photographs of toys and dolls, chronicles the Shaws' escape from New Orleans ahead of the broken levees, the birth of their first child on the day Katrina made landfall, and their eventual return to the city as a family. More info > Buy a copy >
Jennifer Shaw is exhibiting Hurricane Story at the Louisiana State Museum, the Presbytere, on Jackson Square from Oct. 15-March 2012.
Jennifer Shaw
"You're going to love Shaw's marvelous memoir."
- The Times-Picayune
This odyssey of exile, birth and return, told through the dreamlike and haunting photographs of toys and dolls, chronicles the Shaws' escape from New Orleans ahead of the broken levees, the birth of their first child on the day Katrina made landfall, and their eventual return to the city as a family. More info > Buy a copy >
Jennifer Shaw is exhibiting Hurricane Story at the Louisiana State Museum, the Presbytere, on Jackson Square from Oct. 15-March 2012.
BooksRX: A Dose of Vitamin READAnnouncing mail-order medicine for your mind!
Chin Music Press is pleased to offer BooksRX, a quarterly curated collection of the best that North American independent publishers have to offer. We’re excited to prescribe publishers, writers and artists that we think should be a part of any literary medicine cabinet. Available as a single dosage (one issue) or as a full regimen (annual subscription), each installment of BooksRX is a limited edition of 50 and arranged around a loose theme. Paul Constant at The Stranger recommends our curated subscription BooksRX: "a bargain for this kind of unique experience." BooksRX is available exclusively through the Chin Music Press Buy a copy >.