I clearly recall Donald Richie, described by Michael Ondaatje as, ¡°a beautiful and subtle writer,¡± lamenting the lack of an English-language literary salon in Japan, an omission that forced him, as he put it, to ¡°(live) alone in the library of my skull.¡± Were Richie alive today, he would likely be a fully paid up member of Writers in Kyoto, a group of authors whose influence is already being felt in literary circles.
Encounters with Kyoto: Writers in Kyoto Anthology 3, Edited by Jann Williams and Ian Josh Yates.
142 pages
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