Wednesday, March 03, 2010
In Memoriam: Florence Sakade
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Self-Help for Editors
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.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Some Notes on Anthologies
American Suzanne Kamata has lived in Tokushima Prefecture for the past twenty-one years. She is the author of a novel, Losing Kei (Leapfrog Press, 2008), and the editor of three anthologies: The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan (Stone Bridge Press, 1997), Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs (Beacon Press, 2008), and Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering (Wyatt Mackenzie Publishing, May 2009). She has also contributed to several anthologies including, most recently, One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Polyamory, Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love (Riverhead Books, 2009) edited by Rebecca Walker.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Keene, Seidensticker et al.: Products of War, Commodities of Peace
Focusing on recently published biographical works by the late Edward G. Seidensticker and Columbia University professor Donald Keene, William Wetherall evokes the personalities and the times of two great promoters of Japanese literature in the postwar era.
Wetherall’s articles on a variety of subjects are posted on his websites at http://www.wetherall.org.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Swimming With the Flow
Jiho Sargent was a technical writer and editor, proofreader, programming expert, and a SWET stalwart for more than two decades. She was also a Buddhist priest who served for a time at Taisoji near Sugamo station. Her health took a turn for the worse in 2006, however, and she decided to return to the United States to live with her daughter.
The following article, which appeared in the SWET Newsletter in September 2000, reveals Jiho as someone with an awesome résumé of accomplishments and a mind-boggling talent for learning how to learn. She described her life’s journey as “moving with the flow of worldly transience,” but friends and those she mentored will always remember that it was guided by a firm sense of purpose and generosity of spirit. She died in Eugene, Oregon, on June 17, 2009. The photograph accompanying this article was taken for Sargent’s book, 108 Answers: Asking About Zen (Weatherhill 2001).
SWET seeks permission from the photographer for use of this photograph in SWET publications. Please use our online form to contact the editor of the SWET Newsletter.