JAPAN Celebration of Monkey Business Journals
This program, part of Litquake week presented a journal Monkey Business (based on a pop song by Chuck Berry ) launched a couple of years ago, in which Haruki Mirakami plays a role in providing a submission each issue, is very interesting as it introduces us to contemporary Japanese voices. Paul Auster's two earliest penned stories, which have remained unpublished appear in one issue, along with a Charles Simic poem, The Nippon Foundation supported the publication in the Nippon Foundation's Read Japan Programs. The Japan Foundation sponsored the tour of the journal and the panel participants. ( Note. Chuck Berry: "Sa me thing every day -- gettin'-up, goin' to school/no need for me to complain - my objectiveions overruled, ahh!/Too much monkey business, too muchmonkey business/Too much monkey business, too much monkey business/Too much monkey business for me to be involved in!" The editors say, "No other work of art that I know of deals ...