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Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan #3
Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan Volume 3
“An astonishment, by turns playful and profound, that makes you wish it were a monthly.” —Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Monkey Business is full of deep, funny, wild, scary, fabulous, moving, surprising, brilliant work. There is no literary magazine, no magazine period, that I get more excited about reading.” —Laird Hunt, author of Neverhome
“I feel my brain being reconfigured every time I read Monkey Business. The Japanese sense of story is very different from the American or Western sense of story, and it always opens up possibilities for me.” —Matthew Sharpe, author of Jamestown
Monkey Business is the in-translation offspring of the Tokyo-based magazine Monkey Business, which was founded in 2008 by Motoyuki Shibata, one of Japan’s most highly regarded men of letters.
Monkey Business aims to translate and present a wide array of established and emerging authors, showcasing the best of contemporary Japanese literature.
Volume 3 showcases Japanese writing new and old, with an apocalyptic view of Tokyo by Hideo Furukawa, a series of avant-garde poems by the prewar Korean poet Yi Sang, the debut work of Japan’s Grandma Moses of literature, Masatsugu Ono’s tale of monkeys and men, new stories by Hiromi Kawakami, Gen’ichiro Takahashi, Mieko Kawakami, a manga based on Kafka's Metamorphosis, new work from Paul Auster, Richard Powers and Charles Simic -- and much, much more.
“Monkey Business is full of deep, funny, wild, scary, fabulous, moving, surprising, brilliant work. There is no literary magazine, no magazine period, that I get more excited about reading.” —Laird Hunt, author of Neverhome
“I feel my brain being reconfigured every time I read Monkey Business. The Japanese sense of story is very different from the American or Western sense of story, and it always opens up possibilities for me.” —Matthew Sharpe, author of Jamestown
Monkey Business is the in-translation offspring of the Tokyo-based magazine Monkey Business, which was founded in 2008 by Motoyuki Shibata, one of Japan’s most highly regarded men of letters.
Monkey Business aims to translate and present a wide array of established and emerging authors, showcasing the best of contemporary Japanese literature.
Volume 3 showcases Japanese writing new and old, with an apocalyptic view of Tokyo by Hideo Furukawa, a series of avant-garde poems by the prewar Korean poet Yi Sang, the debut work of Japan’s Grandma Moses of literature, Masatsugu Ono’s tale of monkeys and men, new stories by Hiromi Kawakami, Gen’ichiro Takahashi, Mieko Kawakami, a manga based on Kafka's Metamorphosis, new work from Paul Auster, Richard Powers and Charles Simic -- and much, much more.
333 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2013
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February 4, 2023
Exceptional short stories, plays, poems and artwork … a delight to read. Every creative story in the collection kept you interested in the outcome. A well put together and highly recommended read. 5 Stars
December 31, 2019
Dreams of Love, ect. by Mieko Kawakami
January 17, 2023
3.75
An absolute delight to read and travel with these writers through an anthology of stories.
I will be seeking out other volumes of Monkey - New writing from Japan.
An absolute delight to read and travel with these writers through an anthology of stories.
I will be seeking out other volumes of Monkey - New writing from Japan.
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June 8, 2023The assembly of talent in this issue is amazing, but unfortunately I can't seem to find a physical copy for sale anywhere and I can't use e-readers. If you happen to have a copy of this collection in book form, please message me! I'd love to purchase it from you if you are willing to part with it.
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