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  • Making Sense of Japanese

    What the Textbooks Don't Tell You

    by Jay Rubin ...
    Making Sense of Japanese is the fruit of one foolhardy American's thirty-year struggle to learn and teach the Language of the Infinite. Previously known as Gone Fishin', this book has brought Jay Rubin more feedback than any of his literary translations or scholarly tomes, "even if," he says, "you discount the hate mail from spin-casters and the stray gill-netter."To convey his conviction that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia

    by Steven Jay Rubin ...
    A rich, fact-filled collectible, packed with vibrant history, amazing trivia, and rare photographs, The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia, assembled with the full cooperation of the Rod Serling estate, includes biographies of every principal actor involved in the series and hundreds who toiled behind the scenes—producers, writers, and directors. It is an exhaustive and engrossing guide, a compendium of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The James Bond Movie Encyclopedia

    by Steven Jay Rubin ...
    "Nobody does 007 encyclopedias better than Bond historian Steven Jay Rubin. Buy this one. M's orders." —George Lazenby, James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret ServicePacked with behind-the-scenes information, fascinating facts, trivia, bloopers, classic quotes, character bios, cast and filmmaker bios, and hundreds of rare and unusual photographs of those in front of and behind the cameraIan Fleming ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sun Gods

    by Jay Rubin ...
    Arriving in Seattle on the eve of World War II, Japanese-born Mitsuko falls for Tom, a widowed pastor, and becomes surrogate mother to his fair-haired American toddler, Bill. But the bombing of Pearl Harbor strains the newly formed family as U.S. government mandates and Tom’s growing discomfort with all things Japanese force Mitsuko and young Bill to leave Seattle and Tom behind for the Minidoka ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After Dark

    by Haruki Murakami ...
    Translated by Jay Rubin ...
    Series series Vintage International
    **From the New York Times bestselling author—a gripping novel of late night encounters that’s “hypnotically eerie, sometimes even funny, but most of all … [a book] that keeps ratcheting up the suspense” (The Washington Post Book World).Now with a new introduction by the author.**Nineteen-year-old Mari is waiting out the night in an anonymous Denny’s when she meets a young man who insists he knows ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

    Edited by Jay Rubin ...
    This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable works being written today. Short story writers already well-known to English-language readers are all included here - Tanizaki, Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata - but also many surprising new finds. From Yuko Tsushima's 'Flames' to ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Absolutely on Music

    Conversations

    by Haruki Murakami, Seiji Ozawa ...
    Translated by Jay Rubin ...
    A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.In Absolutely on Music, internationally Haruki Murakami sits down with his friend Seiji Ozawa, the revered former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, for a series of conversations on their shared passion: music ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland

    A New Translation

    by Haruki Murakami ...
    Translated by Jay Rubin ...
    Series series Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle comes a relentlessly inventive novel that dives deep into the very nature of consciousness.“Fantastical, mysterious, and funny . . . a fantasy world that might have been penned by Franz Kafka.”—The Philadelphia InquirerAcross two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in which ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sanshiro

    by Natsume Soseki ...
    Translated by Jay Rubin ...
    One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving 'real world' of Tokyo, its women and university. In the subtle tension between our appreciation of Soseki's lively humour and our awareness of Sanshiro's doomed innocence, the novel comes to life. Sanshiro is ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Cat Who Lived With Anne Frank

    by David Lee Miller, Steven Jay Rubin ...
    Illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley ...
    Told through the warm lens of a beloved pet, The Cat Who Lived with Anne Frank captures the life of a young girl filled with promise in a way that young readers can appreciate and understand, with art by the NY Times bestselling illustrator of I DISSENT!When Mouschi the cat goes with his boy, Peter, to a secret annex, he meets a girl named Anne. Bright, kind and loving, Anne dreams of freedom and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Kamigata Anthology

    Literature from Japan’s Metropolitan Centers, 1600–1750

    by Sumie Jones, Adam L. Kern, Harold Bolitho, Stefania Burk, Robert Campbell, David Cannell, Cheryl Crowley, Alan Cummings0, Charles Fox1, Matthew Fraleigh2, C. Andrew Gerstle3, Thomas Hare4, Howard Hibbett5, Adam Kabat6, Dylan McGee7, Gregory Pflugfelder8, Shelley Fenno Quinn9, Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen0, Jay Rubin1, Paul Gordon Schalow2, David Sitkin3, Henry D. Smith II4, John Solt5, Toru Takahashi6, Glynne Walley7, Steven Wills8, Marcia Yonemoto9 ...
    This is the first of a three-volume anthology of Edo- and Meiji-era urban literature that includes An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Mega-City, 1750–1850 and A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850–1920. The present work focuses on the years in which bourgeois culture first emerged in Japan, telling the story of the rising commoner arts of Kamigata, or the “Upper ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Combat Films

    American Realism, 1945-2010, 2d ed.

    by Steven Jay Rubin ...
    This critical text offers a behind-the-scenes look at fifteen of the most important American war films of the last 60 years. Based on original interviews and archival research and featuring rare photographs, this book covers films considered unusually realistic for the genre. The original edition (1981) covered war films through World War II, while the present, expanded edition includes seven new ... Read more

    $21.39 USD