"Monkey is Back!" Live Zoom reading and performance Friday, December 11th, 8 pm (New York) / Saturday, December 12th, 10 am (Tokyo)

To celebrate this month's global release of the new issue of MONKEY in print & digital formats:

Novelist Hiroko Oyamada is compared to Kobo Abe, Kenzaburo Oe and Haruki Murakami in this recent New York Times review of her latest novel, "The Hole." 

We are excited to introduce Hiroko to you on Friday, Dec. 11th (US) / Saturday Dec. 12th (Japan) in MONKEY IS BACK! - a celebration of the global print release this month of MONKEY: New Writing from Japan literary magazine.

• The Zoom event is free, and registration is here. 

• You can now purchase your copy of the new English-language MONKEY here.

Hiroko will read with her English-language translator, the scholar David Boyd. Artist Satoshi Kitamura will present kamishibai, a classic form of paper theater visual storytelling that was a precursor to manga. Founding editor Motoyuki Shibata will host, I will moderate. See you soon!

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