Articles
April 13, 2008
SWET Newsletter, Number 118
December 2007 In this issue:
Translating from Japanese to English Through a Glass Darkly: Is Translating Poetry Possible? (Janine Beichman) A Publisher's Publisher Remembering Nobuki Saburō (Donald Richie, Akanoma Yukimori, Michael Brase, Peter Goodman, Katakura Shigeo, Machiko Moriyasu, Katsuyama Katsuhiko, Kim Schuefftan, Mary Sutherland, Jules Yoiung, Dorothy Britton (Lady Bouchier), Juliet Winters Carpenter) SWET Events Damian Flanagan: Why Read Soseki? (David Eunice) Writing and Publishing Fiction... more
February 25, 2008
Writing and Publishing Fiction
by Dianne Highbridge
The first words I have here in my notes are: “No one reads fiction any more.”
In the world we live in, we are surrounded by stories. We consume stories. You look at the newspaper, turn on the TV, and there are stories, stories—some of them so outrageous that you wonder why you bother to write fiction at all.... more
February 9, 2008
Subtleties of Scientific Style
Reviewed by Richard Weisburd Review of Matthew Stevens; Thornleigh, NSW, Australia: ScienceScape Editing, 2007. 103 pages. Softcover ISBN0-9578877-2-8. Available online. Softcover US12.00/A$15.00 + postage.
Substantive editing of research papers is a difficult task. The content is complex, technical, and original. The authors are intimately familiar with their own work, but not always aware of the difficulty that readers may have extracting... more
September 26, 2007
SWET Newsletter, Number 117
October 2007 In this issue:
Translating from Japanese to English: Jumping Into the Pond (Juliet Winters Carpenter) Bringing Japanese Literature to the West: The Knopf Translation Program, 1955-76 (Larry Walker) Wordsmith Extraordinaire Remembering Edward G. Seidensticker (Janine Beichman, Juliet Winters Carpenter, Michael Cooper, Rebecca Copeland, Aileen Gatten, Andrew Horvat, Donald Keene, Robert Morrell, Donald Richie, Burton Watson, Lynne E. Riggs) SWET Events Summer Garden in Old Musashino... more
September 26, 2007
The First Five Pages
by Ginny Tapley The First Five Pages: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile by Noah Lukeman. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999[K1]. 207 pages. Hardcover. ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-9093-7; softcover ISBN-10: 978-0-7432-9090-3.[K2] $13.95.
Noah Lukeman’s The First Five Pages is, as the subtitle suggests, aimed at writers trying to get their work published. With the advent... more
July 12, 2007
“Ask Aunt Eva” Reissued
by Kay Vreeland
Doreen Simmons has been in Japan since 1973, writing feature articles, editing, acting, recording, and with a sideline as one of the few foreign female Sumo experts, including being a live commentator on NHK’s worldwide satellite service. [See Newsletter No. 71, “A Day in the Life.”] From 1996 to 2003, she kept SWETers on the straight and narrow... more