{"id":655,"date":"2012-05-29T09:30:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=655"},"modified":"2012-05-29T09:35:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T16:35:14","slug":"im-live-interviewing-philosophical-mystery-novelist-todd-shimoda-this-thursday-at-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=655","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m live-interviewing &#8220;philosophical mystery&#8221; novelist Todd Shimoda this Thursday at Diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-656\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Subduction\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Subduction.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Subduction.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Subduction-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Angelenos, you can catch me live-interviewing <a>Todd Shimoda<\/a>, author of Japanese- and Japanese-Amercan-themed &#8220;philosophical mysteries,&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dieselbookstore.com\/\">Diesel, A Bookstore<\/a> in Brentwood this Thursday, May 31st. You may remember my <a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/experimental_novelist_todd_shimoda_seeking_mono_no_aware_in_and_with_literary_art\">first interview with Todd on <em>The Marketplace of Ideas<\/em><\/a>, when I talked to him about reading Kobo Abe, integrating art with text, and writing his novel <em>Oh!: Mystery of Mono no Aware<\/em>. The Diesel event will launch his new, equally philosophical, mysterious, and visual book, <em>Subduction<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dieselbookstore.com\/event\/brentwood-publication-party-subduction-todd-and-linda-shimoda\">Diesel&#8217;s blurb<\/a> for the party:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood welcomes acclaimed author-artist couple <strong>Todd and Linda Shimoda<\/strong> to the store to celebrate the publication of their new book, <strong><em>Subduction<\/em><\/strong>, on Thursday, May 31st at 7pm. <strong>Colin Marshall<\/strong>, host and producer of the podcast <em id=\"yui_3_2_0_28_1338062998106582\">Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/em>, will join Todd and Linda for an informal Q&amp;A and discussion.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Subduction<\/em><\/strong> is a seductive mystery set on a tiny, earthquake-plagued island. Endo, a young physician unjustly charged with a patient&#8217;s death, is banished to the island to care for the few remaining elderly residents. After a mysterious death, he discovers why the islanders don&#8217;t wish to leave: years ago, jealousies, lust, and violence ripped apart their lives, and the wounds haven&#8217;t healed. Exquisitely designed with L.J.C. Shimoda&#8217;s artwork throughout, <strong><em>Subduction<\/em><\/strong> also features a sixteen-page illustrated retelling of the myth of Kashima, the god who controls a giant, thrashing catfish that causes earthquakes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Sake, snacks, and art too,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/toddshimoda\/status\/207467456061640704\">says Todd<\/a>. Come one, come all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angelenos, you can catch me live-interviewing Todd Shimoda, author of Japanese- and Japanese-Amercan-themed &#8220;philosophical mysteries,&#8221; at Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood this Thursday, May 31st. You may remember my first interview with Todd on The Marketplace of Ideas, when I talked to him about reading Kobo Abe, integrating art with text, and writing his novel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}