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Rebecca Copeland

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Rebecca Copeland is a writer of fiction and literary criticism and a translator of Japanese literature. Her stories travel between Japan and the American South and touch on questions of identity, belonging, and self-discovery. The Kimono Tattoo, her debut work, takes readers on a journey into Kyoto’s intricate world of kimono design, and into a mystery that interweaves family dynamics, loss, and reconciliation.

Her academic writings have focused almost exclusively on modern Japanese women writers, their battles against conservative literary expectations, and their wonderful, at times subversive creativity. She has translated the works of writer Uno Chiyo and novelist Kirino Natsuo. Her translation of Kirino’s The Goddess Chronicle won the PE
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An Interview Never to Forget—and Never to Repeat

“Break a Leg.� That’s the pep talk when you go on stage, right?

Wish it had been only been a leg. I felt like my whole body was going to shatter, that I might even vomit right there in front of the entire search committee.

My stage? A smelly, claustrophobic classroom.

My performance? A job talk.

It’s not an experience I’ll ever forget. Certainly not one I care to repeat. But it is a memory I can recou

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I've always been a big fan of Sei Shonagon, author of the 10th-century Pillow Book. She is often sidelined (unfairly, I think) by all the attention paid to her contemporary, Murasaki Shikibu, and her voluminous The Tale of Genji.

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Ishibashi Yoshino, a graduate of a junior college and now an insurance saleswoman in Fukuoka City, spends time searching for love on online dating sites. "Love" is hardly what she finds. In fact, her demand for money after each of her hook ups bring ...more
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A fun and lively read! The Inugami Clan carried readers into the chilly mountains of Nasu, northeast of Tokyo. It was delightful to be away from the city and tucked in among quiet ryokan lodgings and lovely estates. But don't let the pristine beauty ...more
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