Ongoing & upcoming events

This is a talk and signing event with Kenji Kuroda, who will publish his new book 'Perfect Locked-Room Matryoshka: Mystery in the Mystery' with 星海社FICTIONS in June.\nHe will speak at length about his latest work and about Nagoya as a puzzle-solving city.

This is a tanka gathering for beginners. The host is Chiharu Itō, supported by Satsuki Suzuki. If you would like to participate, please compose one tanka on the theme 'Nagoya' in advance (it's OK whether or not you explicitly include 'Nagoya' in the poem) and email it to [email protected] ⇨ Please send your email to the Ekinishi Small Tanka Gathering (by July 10).

We will welcome Kumiko Shindo, the leading authority on Fusae Ichikawa studies who recently published 'A Biographical Study of Fusae Ichikawa', and ask her about what she wanted to convey to readers through her research on Fusae Ichikawa, the most prominent postwar politician to come from Aichi Prefecture. The interviewer will be journalist Keiko Yamamoto, a former NHK commentator.

This is the 4th Nagoya Ekinishi Literary Marche. The exhibitors this time are as follows (in no particular order): ハミング研究所 今夜はここで栞を 本の海める サラバ道徳 koboshiyasan 海月舎 静謐堂 名古屋SFアンソロジー That's all. The venue is NAgoyaBOOKCENTER, 2nd floor, Gallery N2.

Professor 野口武悟 (Aoyama Gakuin University, Library and Information Science), a leading researcher in reading accessibility, and 藤坂康司, a former library director and now bookstore staff who helped realize a library that's more than just a place to borrow books together with citizens and librarians, will have an in-depth conversation about the possibilities of libraries that can only be understood through practice and about the potential for books that reading accessibility brings.

Would you like to chat about tanka with 染よだか while munching on snacks? If you'd like to participate, please compose one tanka and send it to our shop's X account @NBC_horiebldg or by email to [email protected] by August 3.

Reading and writing are two sides of the same coin. Knowing the writer's perspective makes reading even more enjoyable. From what viewpoint does an editor read a work? Behind-the-scenes stories that are a must-listen even for those aiming for newcomer prizes. Instructor profile: Hisayuki Arai (新井久幸) Born in Tokyo in 1969 and raised in Chiba Prefecture. Graduated from the Faculty of Law at Kyoto University. While at university he belonged to the Detective Fiction Research Society (Kyoto University Mystery Club). He joined Shinchosha in 1993. After editing magazines and books, he served as editor-in-chief of the magazine "Shōsetsu Shincho" for six years from 2010. He is currently head of the publishing department. Major works he has handled include 『夜のピクニック』（恩田陸）、『重力ピエロ』（伊坂幸太郎）、『ボトルネック』（米澤穂信）、『向日葵の咲かない夏』（道尾秀介） and the anthology "Story Seller." Last year he edited 『失われた貌』（櫻田智也）, which won a triple crown in mystery rankings.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nishio-born poet Noriko Ibaraki. We will welcome Makoto Kumagai, principal of Anjo Gakuen High School, who has published "Poet Noriko Ibaraki: The Girl from Nishio" (Fubaisha), and hear him speak about the book. The interviewer will be Keiko Yamamoto, a former NHK commentator and journalist.

Noran Nijino, who made a striking major debut with 'Sono Humming wa 7' at KADOKAWA. Her new book, 'Akari no Tomoru Hello', which the author says is her favorite work, has been published by her local Nagoya publisher Sakurayama-sha. To commemorate the publication, we will hold an author talk and signing event. On the day there will be a reading by Tomoko Shio. Please look forward to it.

Isn't today's publishing world becoming a kind of “print macho”? Reading only in printed characters—difficult words and kanji—is not the only form of reading. By expanding ways of reading beyond the conventional frame of “reading”—comics, graphic works, audiobooks, etc.—we can lower the barriers to reading and increase readership. We will hold a talk and signing event to celebrate the publication of publishing journalist Kazufumi Iida's latest book, "An Introduction to 'Yuru Reading' for 90% of Japanese."

A gathering where 染よだか reads their own poems aloud and chats.

This is a tanka gathering hosted by tanka poet Miyako Asai. Beginners and those who have not yet started writing tanka are welcome to participate. If you will participate, please compose one tanka and send it by email to [email protected] by September 18. The theme is free. Also, drinks will not be sold on the day, so please feel free to bring your own beverages.

It had been scheduled for June, but due to a typhoon it has been rescheduled to Saturday, September 26 at 14:00. Those who applied in June, please apply again. Also, the second session has been set for Saturday, November 28 at 14:00, and an event page has been created, so please check that information and apply. For this first session, the talk will cover Nagoya's yūkaku from the Keichō era through the Meiji period. The lecturers will be members of the Tokai Yūri History Research Group.

This is the second installment of a love-of-reading talk with 大原扁理 and るこ. These two incomparable book nerds will once again share their passion for reading — from the one book that hooked them, to favorite authors, when/where/and what kinds of moments they read in, their reading histories, and recent recommendations. You'll likely start looking at your TBR pile with new fondness! There will be a signing session after the talk!

In the 2nd session, we will talk about the history of Nakamura Yūkaku from the modern Taisho period through the prewar Showa era. The lecturers are members of the Tokai Yūri History Research Group.