Wendy Nelson Tokunaga's Blog

• Reading Your Writing Out Loud

  October 17, 2009

  • Reading Your Writing Out Loud Today I’m preparing for my reading tonight at LitQuake’s LitCrawl. I’ll be reading from my forthcoming novel, Love in Translation, and I’m excited to be a part of this great literary tradition in San Francisco. We only have 5-6 minutes to read and this makes total sense; it’s hard for an audience to concentrate on a passage much longer than this, ...
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• New People J-Pop Mall in San Francisco's Japantown

  September 4, 2009

  • New People J-Pop Mall in San Francisco's Japantown I visited the new New People mall in San Francisco’s Japantown a few days after its grand opening the weekend of August 16. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a sucker for Japantown’s, Little Tokyo’s, Japanese malls, stores, urants, etc. located anywhere outside of Japan. I’ve found them in Paris (in the Opera district) and ...
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• Tokyo and Japan on the Cheap, Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Otaku

  July 29, 2009

  • Chirashi Roundup You can give me twenty lashes with a wet udon noodle if you wish, but I sure find it difficult to keep up with writing a blog with any amount of consistency. So I’m trying kind of a different format, which may allow me to post with a little more frequency.I ran across this article in my hometown newspaper, The San Francisco Chronicle, which has some good tips for traveling ...
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