MONKEY Vol. 6: Horror
Friday, May 15 at 5:30pm at Kinokuniya New York
Join us at Kinokuniya New York on Thursday, May 15 at 5:30 PM for MONKEY Vol. 6 Horror, an evening exploring the strange, uncanny, and unforgettable worlds of contemporary Japanese horror literature!
Don’t miss a literary discussion with authors Hideo Furukawa and Tomoka Shibasaki, translators Ted Goossen and Kendall Heitzman, MONKEY contributing editor Roland Kelts, and MONKEY founder Motoyuki Shibata, followed by a Q&A and book signing!
Participants
Hideo Furukawa
One of Japan’s most innovative writers, he is the author of Belka, Why Don’t You Bark? and Slow Boat, and the creator of The Tale of the Heike: The Inu-Oh Chapters, which inspired the Golden Globe–winning film Inu-Oh. His work will be published in English by MONKEY in 2027.
Tomoka Shibasaki
A prize-winning novelist and short story writer, her work includes Asako I & II and the English-translated collection A Hundred Years and a Day (MONKEY/Stone Bridge Press, 2025).
Ted Goossen
A literary translator and professor emeritus at York University, he is a founding editor of MONKEY and has translated works by Murakami, Kawakami, and Shiga, including Dragon Palace (MONKEY/Stone Bridge Press, 2023).
Kendall Heitzman
An associate professor of Japanese literature and culture at the University of Iowa, he is the author of Enduring Postwar and the translator of works by Kaori Fujino and Hideo Furukawa, with The Tale of the Heike: The Inu-Oh Chapters forthcoming from MONKEY in 2027.
Roland Nozomu Kelts
A contributing editor to MONKEY New Writing from Japan, he is an award-winning journalist and author whose work appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, and he is currently filming a documentary on manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka.
Motoyuki Shibata
Translating American literature and directing the Japanese literary journal MONKEY and its offshoot MONKEY New Writing from Japan, he is professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and has translated authors including Paul Auster, Rebecca Brown, Stuart Dybek, and Jonathan Swift.
Synopsis
MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an annual anthology that showcases the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Vol. 6 celebrates HORROR, from demons and ghosts to the myriad existential and environmental fears that come with living in our troubled times. MONKEY offers short fiction and poetry by writers such as Haruki Murakami, Yoko Ogawa, and Hiromi Kawakami; graphic stories by Satoshi Kitamura; new translations of modern classics; and contributions from authors outside Japan.