Monkey Business International Launch Events

MONKEY BUSINESS:

New Writing from Japan

LAUNCH EVENTS

April 30

Crossing Boundaries: Contemporary Asian Fiction in 
Translation
(part of the PEN World Voices Festival)
Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue
2:30–4:00 p.m.
Hiromi Kawakami and Rebecca Brown, moderated by Motoyuki Shibata
Minoru Ozawa and Joshua Beckman, moderated by 
Ted Goossen
 
May 1
Monkey Business Launch Party at BookCourt
163 Court Street, Brooklyn
7:00 p.m.
Join us for an evening of readings and celebrating 
with Monkey Business editors and contributors!

May 3
Contemporary Japanese Storytelling: The Verbal and the Visual
Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street
6:30-8:00 p.m.
Hideo Furukawa and Steve Erickson, 
video reading by Barry Yourgrau,
co-moderated by Motoyuki Shibata and Roland Kelts
For more information about Monkey Business 
and to order a copy, visit www.apublicspace.org


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