We’re launching Kaya’s latest book–H.T. Tsiang’s The Hanging on Union Square–a satiric, quasi-experimental novel that explores leftist politics in Depression-era New York – an era of union busting and food lines. The book is back in print for the first time since it was originally self-published in 1935 and we are thrilled to have editor Floyd […]
Kaya is very excited to be in Boston all week, March 6 – 9, as an official exhibitor at the AWP 2013 Conference in Boston. Come visit us on Level 2 of the AWP Bookfair at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. We’ll be at table R25. We’ll have all of our new releases for […]
Kaya Press celebrated Shōson Nagahara’s LAMENT IN THE NIGHT, translated into English for the first time ever by Andrew Leong, in partnership with the Japanese American National Museum, the Master of Professional Writing Program at USC, and the Huntington/USC Institute on California and the West, this past Saturday Feb. 23rd in Little Tokyo. We kicked off […]
Actors Tamlyn Tomita and Gedde Watanabe will read excerpts from the book, followed by a discussion and Q&A with LA Times Book Critic David Ulin and translator Andrew Leong. ADMISSION FOR THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Reception with FREE FOOD and music by THE SADHUS OF BASS to follow immediately around the corner at FAR BAR.
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 […]
