Swet Columns
May 31, 2011
A Writer’s Look at the iPad (2011)
by Lem Fugitt
Lem Fugitt is a Tokyo-based geek-about-town, using his experience in technology and business to write regularly on items of technical interest. He writes here about his recent conversion to a new way of putting thoughts into written words.
If anyone had asked me back in March 2010 if there was anything I really wanted or... more
April 17, 2011
Stonewalling Clients and Timely Usage
by Torkil Christensen
SWET-L, the open mailing list for SWET and people interested in matters of concern to professional writers, editors, and translators, is an ever-reliable source of helpful and timely advice, keeping listers abreast of new crinkles in English.
This installment of the events on SWET-L brings us up to the end of 2010. Here you will learn... more
December 18, 2010
Literary Translation: Interpretation and Permutation
Reviewed by Edward Lipsett
I don’t read French, and to be honest if I ever knew who Apollinaire was, I’ve forgotten. When I read a review of this book in the summer 2009 issue of the BCLT1 journal In Other Words though, it sounded like something that I would really enjoy reading, for the same reason that I read and thoroughly... more
June 18, 2010
Walking Through History and Writing about Culture
by Sumiko Enbutsu
On a hot July day in 2009, SWET’s Summer Party featured a kaiseki lunch at the Kantokutei restaurant in Tokyo’s Koishikawa Kōrakuen garden and a talk by Sumiko Enbutsu. Author of Discover Shitamachi: A Walking Guide to the Other Tokyo (1984), Water Walks in the Suburbs of Tokyo (2000), A Flower Lover’s Guide to Tokyo (Kodansha International,... more
December 15, 2009
Self-Help for Editors
Reviewed by Ginny Tapley Takemori
The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself). By Carol Fisher Saller. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73425-5, ISBN-10: 226-73425-0, $13.00.
The Subversive Copy Editor—what a great title! That alone was enough to make me pick up a copy right... more
October 23, 2009
eBooks and the Author
by Hugh Ashton
I’m considering all the new options by which we can now read books (i.e. the ebook reader market, which appears to be coming of age - sort of), and it seems to me that there are both technical and business issues here.
The software to convert existing material to ebooks does not seem to work at all well. For... more