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Hello, Toronto!

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York University, 9-9-2013 The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 9-10-2013 The Japan Foundation, 9-11-2013 Hockley Valley, Ontario, 9-12-2013

On South Africa and safari: travel column for Paper Sky magazine

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Thank you, Brooklyn! (and Haruki Murakami)

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With author, scholar and Haruki Murakami translator Jay Rubin, and author, scholar and Haruki Murakami collaborator Motoyuki Shibata -- @BookCourt in Brooklyn.  Missed us? Video is here , courtesy of Lawrence Brenner. [photo by Susan McCormac Hamaker]

Monkey & Murakami, Sunday, 9/15, NYC

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Will be here .

Others need not apply

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The MONKEY has landed in Canada

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Thank you, Berkeley!

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Thank you, San Francisco!

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The MONKEY has landed in California

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"Studio 360" Japan redux on NPR this weekend

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"This is Their Youth," my story on Japanese youth culture and pathologies for "Studio 360:" "Nerd's Paradise," my story on Akihabara, virtual worlds, and mass murder, w/Kurt Andersen:

from California to Canada -- to NYC: Monkey Biz Fall Tour 2013

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California Thursday, September 5:   The University of San Francisco, Center for Pacific Rim, 5 - 8 p.m. Friday, September 6:  The University of California, Berkeley, Institute of East Asian Studies, 1 - 3 p.m. Canada Monday, September 9:  York University, “Japanese Authors at York,” 12 - 2 p.m. Tuesday, September 10:  Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, “Japanese Literature Today,” 7 - 9 p.m. Wednesday, September 11:  The Japan Foundation, Toronto, “Japanese Literature at Home and Abroad,” 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. New York City Sunday, September 15:  BookCourt, Brooklyn, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Haruki Murakami,” 4 - 6 p.m.