I clearly recall Donald Richie, described by Michael Ondaatje as, "a beautiful and subtle writer," lamenting the lack of an English-language literary salon in Japan, an omission that forced him, as he put it, to "(live) alone in the library of my skull." Were Richie alive today, he would likely be a fully paid up member of Writers in Kyoto, a group of authors whose influence is already being felt in literary circles.
Encounters with Kyoto: Writers in Kyoto Anthology 3, Edited by Jann Williams and Ian Josh Yates.
142 pages