Category: The Love We Share Without Knowing
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Library Journal review
I missed this review when it came out in early December, but having come across it now, am putting it up as I have with the other reviews that have come in since The Love We Share Without Knowing has been published. It’s a good one! 🙂 (Deserving of a smiley face, especially since I…
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Snow Day
It’s a snow day here in Youngstown, always one of my favorite sorts of days since I was a little boy. Magical things happen on them, it seems, or at least they do in my memory, which is simply the other side of dreaming, so perhaps that’s where some of the magic in my memories…
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Indie Next
I mentioned in an earlier post that the new book was selected as a notable book for January 2009 on the American Book Seller’s Association’s Indie Next List. From what I’ve gathered, books are nominated for the list by independent booksellers. In the list’s pamphlet for the month, a statement from the bookseller that nominated…
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Dreams
Recently, Elizabeth Hand reviewed my new novel-in-stories and ferreted out a lot of influential material I’d been looking at and reading while I lived in Japan and wrote the book. One film that she didn’t mention but was influential on the book nonetheless, particularly in its dreaminess and it’s own film-in-stories type of structure, was…
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New Year’s review
My New Year’s Day starts with a great, eerily knowing review of The Love We Share Without Knowing by Elizabeth Hand. Why so eerily knowing? Well, in this review, Elizabeth Hand recognizes several books and films that were very influential during the making of this book. They’re all Japanese books or films, and one would have…
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Another review
Missed this one while I was traveling last week. Another review of The Love We Share Without Knowing, this time from Paul DiFilippo over at SciFiWeekly: Fox maidens, mystical blindness and a host of other Asian supernatural oddities as seen through Western eyes. This sophomore offering from the author of the well-received One for Sorrow (2007) is a…
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Pics from KGB
Okay, so here’s a little break into the interlude I’d claimed would be the standard over the holidays. Ellen Datlow put up photos from the evening I read with Alaya Dawn Johnson at the KGB bar last week. It was a packed house, a fun night, a great audience. Here are several of my favorite…
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Casting the pod
Last night: karaoke with Meg McCarron plus sake = a bit of a hangover the next day, but a small price to pay for a good time. Today: Bantam Books releases a podcast of me talking about The Love We Share Without Knowing and my time in Japan. You can listen to it by clicking…
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At Bookslut
Geoffrey Goodwin has been interviewing me off and on since last August, 2007, until the end of November 2008. Questions would come to me via e-mail every now and then, and I would answer him, and then a month or two later, another would appear. It was the most interesting way to do an interview…
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And now the news
Two things about The Love We Share Without Knowing this week: It’s been selected as one of the American Booksellers Association’s Indie Next and Notable Books for January 2009. Thank you independent booksellers! And just today, Carolyn See reviews the book (and attempts to draw some conclusions about me perhaps as well) in the Washington…