Articles
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
July 4, 2007
SWET Newsletter, Number 116
June 2007 In this issue:
Translating from Japanese to English Burning the Bridge • Michael Emmerich Remembering Otis Cary Editing Memories in Two Languages • Beth Cary and Ann Cary SWET Events April Writers’ Café: Glory in the Writing (Lynne E. Riggs) May Workshop: Kathy Morikawa on Self-Publishing (Bryan Harrell) SWET Member News “Ask Aunt Eva” Reissued: Doreen Simmons interviewed by Kay Vreeland Ryūnosuke Revisited (Charles... more
June 1, 2007
Effective Onscreen Editing: New tools for an old profession
Effective onscreen editing: New tools for an old profession, by Geoff Hart. Pointe-Claire, Quebec: Diaskeuasis Publishing, 2007. 723 pages. Ebook. ISBN 978-0-9783227-0-0. US$20 outside Canada.
Do you use MS Word or other applications to edit documents onscreen and think you know exactly how to do it? After using Geoff Hart’s eBook, based on his column... more
April 23, 2007
Mind the Gaffe!
Reviewed by Kay Vreeland
Mind the Gaffe! by R. L. Trask. New York: Harper, 2001, 2006. 290 pages. Paperback. ISBN-13: 978-0061132209; ISBN-10: 0061132209. $11.16; ¥1474.
Larry Trask led a double life—two countries, two careers, two wives—but he had one great passion for linguistics. Ranked by his peers with Noam Chomsky and Stephen Pinker, and author of classics on language, its history, and... more