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 […]

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 […]

Now on the Kaya Press Smoking Hot Bookshelves is our newest title: Lament In The Night by Shoson Nagahara (Translated by Andrew Leong). A collection of two novellas originally published in 1920s Los Angeles, both stories are evocative of their age. Complete with the sex, gambling, and alcohol that have become synonymous with the time, […]

Come visit Kaya at the West Hollywood Book Fair on Sunday September 30th, and create a memorable story. Also be sure to get your very own tiger tattoo. Rawr! See Kaya Press author Nicky Schildkraut, Magnetic Refrain (November 2012) read. 10:30 – 11:30am at the Poetry Lounge! 11th Annual West Hollywood Book Fair Sunday, September 30, […]