February 2010
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January 2010
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How to Title Your Novel, by Sarah Walker
No matter what the subject of your book is, the title should have the word alchemy in it. I don’t care if your book is about making gold from crude metal; it still has to have the word alchemy in it. On second thought, that would actually work quite nicely. Regardless, you can use any derivation of the word −alchemist, alchemish, alcheming, whatever, just as long as people can look at your...
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One Noodle at a Time in Tokyo →
Not far from Waseda University in Tokyo, around the corner from a 7-Eleven, down a tidy alley, lies a ramen shop that doesn’t look like a ramen shop. In fact, Ganko, as it’s called, doesn’t look like anything at all. There’s no sign, no windows, only a raggedy black tarp set like a tent against a tiled wall, with a white animal bone dangling from a chain to signal (somehow) what lies within.
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—I saw myself standing in an empty room, he says. I was standing at the...
– everything passes
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