Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut, Kaya’s latest poet, launched her debut collection Magnetic Refrain at The Last Bookstore in Downtown Los Angeles on February 9th. The cavernous bookstore–named one of the 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World–had a robust Saturday afternoon crowd of friends and poetry lovers. Nicky shared the stage with poet Lee Herrick, author […]
Kaya Press celebrated legendary Japanese filmmaker Kaneto Shindo on January 26th with a screening of the beautiful and heart-breaking Naked Island, followed by a Q&A with actor Benicio Del Toro and Jiro Shindo, the director’s son — moderated by USC Political Science Professor Stanley Rosen. Both Del Toro and Jiro Shindo remarked on Kaneto Shindo’s vision […]
Join Kaya Press in a unique opportunity to celebrate legendary filmmaker Kaneto Shindo with a rare 35 mm screening of Naked Island, followed by a Q&A with Benicio Del Toro and Jiro Shindo, the director’s son. In Fall 2013, Kaya will publish Life is Work: The Art of Directing, Screenwriting, and Living Life Without Regrets, […]
Some 87 years ago, Japanese American writer Shōson Nagahara serialized a novel, A Tale of Osato, in the pages of the Rafu Shimpo—a Japanese American newspaper, which first started in Little Tokyo back in 1903. Now, for the first time ever, Nagahara’s collected writings have been translated into English and published by Kaya Press: Lament in […]
Asian American book critic extraordinaire Terry Hong did an in-depth interview with Kaya Press Publisher Sunyoung Lee, featured in the latest issue of Bookslut. Along with detailing Kaya’s past and Lee’s long-time involvement, the piece talks about Kaya’s present life at the University of Southern California and all the exciting new books we have coming […]
Some 87 years after Shōson Nagahara’s gritty stories of survival were published in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo for a Japanese immigrant readership, Kaya Press brings you the first-ever English translation of these forgotten novellas: Lament in the Night, translated by Andrew Leong. Along with Nagahara’s writing, the book features dozens of archival photographs documenting Little […]
