Neo York, Neo York

 

IdN Extra 02: Neo York

Anime and Beyond. For those who aren’t familiar with animé, this particular genre has a long history that has both encouraged and inspired a creative dialogue between Japan and the rest of the world for almost 100 years. In the United States during the 1970's and 80's, Japanese animation was referred to as Japanimation, but was replaced by the term Animé in the mid 1990's as it became more mainstream and evolved in popular American culture.

It’s the evolution of animé that has inspired this book; where this genre came from and how it has come full circle. Post apocalyptic Tokyo is a strong central theme to most anime story lines. We began to ponder what would Neo New York look like, what would be the cultural make up of the city. We invite some great talent to contribute their visions to help with the creation of Neo New York.

ISBN: 978-988-18470-3-4
Size: 210mm (W) X 270mm (H)
Pages: 132 pages

Let's Perch!!

 

 

Ceriph began as a non-profit project between three local undergraduates that noticed friends and acquaintances creating poetry, prose, and photography that deserved to be shared. Thus began a search for a space in print that was accessible to non-professional Singaporean writers, that was neither too formal nor flippant.

The inaugural issue of Ceriph is a compilation of poems, short fiction, pictures and non-fiction that tell quiet stories across busy cities, a thread that binds these tales into a book. The independently published Issue Zero features the works of Laremy Lee, Desirée Lim, Sudev S., Mark Lam, Shane Pereira, Lee Fur-Fur, Cai Li Xian, Ng Yiqin, Andrew Robert Ng, Sharlene Teo, Riot, Captain Crash, Jonah Sun, Wei Fen Lee, Ang Shao-Wen and Linette Lim.

Ceriph's book launch will be held at BooksActually, 86 Club Street, at 7.30pm on the 12th of March, Friday. Join the facebook page for updates, or just cross out those dates on your calendar to have chai and cake with us as we celebrate yet another addition to the growing body of local literature.

Ceriph Issue Zero

What the Chinese Don't Eat

Asia Literary Review magazine

Volume #14

In this issue, Gao Xingjian speaks: "Everyone knows I encountered many difficulties getting published in China. Besides the limits on publication by the authorities, the writer also to place limitations on himself and exercise 'self-discipline'. But in China, even when I showed self-discipline, my works were still banned. So I rejected it as ludicrous."

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As much as open as China is today, it is also as closed as Japan's Sakoku period of isolation.

We love Granta !

Granta, one of our favourite literary magazines from UK, curates new works of everything from essays, fiction, poetry, to photojournalism. We love it so much that we laid our hands on as many back-issues as possible; we thought we would burst with delight ! We would like to share them with you, also -- from now till the end of February, every issue of Granta magazine is at 20% off.

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Granta magazine was originally founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as The Granta, a periodical of student politics, student badinage and student literary enterprise, named after the river that runs through the town. In this original incarnation it had a long and distinguished history, publishing the early work of many writers who later became well known, including A. A. Milne, Michael Frayn, Stevie Smith, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Now, it has moved beyond the walls of Cambridge to take over the world !