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Category: Books

  • Poppas for Sale

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    Everyone’s favorite little Tokyo-based indie publisher, Chin Music Press, has now released their latest book, LAST OF THE RED HOT POPPAS. I bought my copy directly from Craig the other day, and it looks fantastic. By far the most beautiful book they’ve released yet, with an amazing fold-out dust jacket that incorporates the obi. You…

  • Order Poppas Early

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    Chin Music Press is about to release their first novel, LAST OF THE RED HOT POPPAS, and from this post on the CMP blog, it looks like another terrific release. They’ve just launched a site for the book, and are now taking pre-orders.

  • Bondi Books Online Store

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    Bondi Books in Kichijoji has just launched an online store, that accompanies the books they already list on Amazon Japan.

  • Tokyo and my Daughter

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    TOKYO AND MY DAUGHTER is a new book from Nieves featuring the lovely photography of Takashi Homma. You can see a few of the photographs included within here.

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    “It’s Our Thing” Thorsby Tees Cow Books You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • Cow Books Image in Time

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    I finally got a hold of this week’s issue of TIME, that has the piece I wrote on Cow Books (“Brain Fodder“), and was surprised to see they ended up printing photos I had sent them. When I saw the piece online it didn’t include any images, so I just figured they had run the…

  • This Week in Time

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    I have a piece in this week’s issue (June 19, 2006) of TIME (Asian and European editions). “Brain Fodder” covers the Cow Books bookstore, and you can read it online here.

  • Cibone Book Corner

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    The Cibone select shop has just opened a book corner. More than just an interior shop, but dedicated to “life editorial” of a greater scale, Cibone announces the start of a book corner stocking about 2,000 copies of different publications. A look at the lineup suggests a theme along the lines of “What your bookshelf…