If you have any questions about a shipment, send a note to our bookstore staff at. Please allow 1-3 weeks for your book(s) to arrive. Books purchased for events will begin shipping out the day after the event, unless otherwise noted. Thank you for supporting our nonprofit-run indie bookstore! Your purchase will help support our KidsRead programs for NYC Public Schools, Emerging Writer Fellowships, and public programming. Panelists Sam Bett, Morgan Giles, Daniel Joseph, Margaret Mitsutani, and Helen O’Horan will discuss the timeliness of these themes as well as the widening body of Japanese-to-English translations. The late author was a countercultural icon, centering her writing on themes of gender and the danger of technological attachment. Terminal Boredom is a collection of unique, speculative short stories that capture Suzuki’s singular voice. Suzuki was also remarkably forward-thinking on feminism and gender. Japan has one of the world’s lowest birth rates, and it faces a looming demographic crisis. In 1980, the median age in Japan was 32 today, it is 48. A panel of Japanese-to-English literary translators joins us to celebrate the launch of science-fiction legend Izumi Suzuki’s first English-translated book. Like much of Suzuki’s fiction, Terminal Boredom is even more striking and believable in 2020 than it was in 1980.
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