Dear Friends:

Please join us for the Four Stories Japan Winter '07 season finale: "STRIKING OUT: Stories of failure, desperation, and loss."

FEATURING prose readings from:

• Jerry Gordon, co-founder of Reading Words Osaka; author of Language Unfitting, Armageddon's Garden, Fully Formed Failure (CD) and, most recently, Milagro and You; and producer of the spoken-word CD Kansai Poets Vol. 1
• Suzanne Kamata, editor of anthology The Broken Bridge and the journal Yomimono; author of River of Dolls and the forthcoming novel Losing Kei; and writer of fiction and nonfiction appearing in Utne Reader, Kyoto Journal, and more
• Chris Page, editor of Kansai Scene; author of the novel Weed; and writer of short stories and articles in The London Magazine, The London News Review, and more
• Holly Thompson, professor of creative writing at Yokohama City University; Regional Advisor of the Tokyo chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators; and author of the novel Ash and articles and short stories from Wingspan, The Broken Bridge, and more

SUNDAY, MARCH 18, 2007
6-8:30pm (venue opens at 5; readings start @ 6)
Portugalia bar and grill (map @ http://www.bento.com/kansai/gmaps/8242.html)
Nishi-Tenma 4-12-11, Umeda, Osaka
06-6362-6668

ADMITTANCE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Plus, check out the free MP3s and photos from the last Four Stories Tokyo event @ http://www.fourstories.org/events-past.html (MP3s) and http://www.flickr.com/photos/fourstories/ (photos)

Warmest regards,
Tracy Slater
Founder, Four Stories Boston & Four Stories Japan
http://www.fourstories.org/

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Attend Japan’s hottest new (English-language) literary event series!

Four Stories―One Evening, Four Exapt Narratives
July 2, 6-8:30pm
Savannah Rhythm & Blues Bar and Grill
2-10-32 B1F Smile Step Bldg. B1F
Nishi Shinsaibashi
Chuo-ku, Osaka
542-0086
Admittance free and open to the public

This is the Japan opening of the established Four Stories literary series from Boston (USA), of which The Boston Globe, Boston’s main newspaper, has reported,

"Everybody knows about Four Stories, everybody raves about Four Stories, and Four Stories is fast becoming the place to be on the Boston area art scene."

Now, attend Four Stories as it becomes the place to be on the Kansai scene!

The event will feature 4 published authors reading from their fiction or nonfiction for 15 minutes each under the theme "A Place Apart: Four Stories goes global with tales of travel, adventure, and exploration." You can also purchase food and drinks throughout the evening, making it an informal literary evening―with a little bit of conspicuous consumption thrown in. As Four Stories founder, the freelance writer and JapanVisitor-contributor Tracy Slater, puts it, “The experience is like a 19th-Century salon, only 150 years later: same socializing, same witty banter, but no corsets.”

More info and mailing list signup @ http://www.fourstories.org/