Eli K.P. William

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2026-07-15 13:39:22 UTC

In the spring, the handle came off a coffee cup with some sentimental value when I accidentally bumped it with another cup, so I decided to take it in for kintsugi repair. After leaving it with the workshop for about a month, I finally went to pick it up today.
#kintsugi
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2026-07-14 12:31:06 UTC

the paper edition has arrived at my house courtesy of the Mainichi!
#thetravelingtree #michiohoshino
#nevent1q…2q4z
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2026-07-09 04:53:22 UTC

an article about me in yesterday's Mainichi Shimbun (毎日新聞), my first time being profiled in a national newspaper!
#newspaper #profile
mainichi.jp/articles/202...
ひと：イーライ・K・P・ウィリアムさん＝星野道夫の名著を英訳...

2026-07-07 11:48:01 UTC

When I post anywhere about writing process, I get comments from all these bots and grifters trying to sell me editing, book design and other scam publishing services. They should be banished to whatever rotten hole on the internet they crawled out of. Just watch them comment on this post
#writesky

2026-07-07 00:59:59 UTC

After a round of research, I'm now ready to start rewriting my latest Japanese story. The manuscript currently stands at 73,000 characters, roughly 35,000 words, which is novella length, but I expect it to grow to short novel length during the rewrite.
#scifi #secondlanguage #writesky #exophony

2026-07-06 11:56:50 UTC

I've started listening to Butter by Asako Yuzuki, a novel about a gourmet serial killer who seduces older men, cooks them fine meals, and scams them before murdering them.
I'm only on chapter two, but the novel seems well-suited for audio adaptation, with its slow style of narration.
#audiobook
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2026-07-05 13:25:29 UTC

reading The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennet.
I don't read a ton of fantasy these days, but this, the first novel by a male author to win a Hugo in a decade, got me curious.
#booksky
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2026-07-03 02:58:53 UTC

A short profile piece about me should be appearing in the Mainichi Shimbun (毎日新聞) Wednesday July 8th morning edition. National newspapers and magazines have reviewed
my books many times before but they have never covered me.
#newspaper #profile

2026-07-01 23:37:31 UTC

I've had some bad luck in my writing career and when I've had good luck, sometimes I didn't know what to do with it. But if the universe decides to throw some chances at me, I'm ready for it now.
#writesky

2026-07-01 01:09:51 UTC

love it or hate it, AI is not going away any time soon. So we should all make efforts to understand what it is, as a basic component of understanding our present and deciding how to help shape our future.
#AI #knowledge #praxis

2026-06-29 15:19:41 UTC

Stevie Wonder singing with a talkbox in 1972.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c3N...
Stevie Wonder performs a talkb...

2026-06-28 12:18:32 UTC

bee pollinating a hydrangea in the rain
#typhoon #shonan
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2026-06-23 12:24:48 UTC

I saw a few fireflies tonight but not enough to capture in a photo. I'll have to try again on a slightly warmer day.
#shonan #fireflies

2026-06-22 09:58:21 UTC

English author J.G. Ballard on poets who generate poetry with computers, in his 1961 short story Studio 5, The Stars:
"When I say they have everything to learn, I mean about their own hearts"
#prescient #scifi #generativeAI
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2026-06-21 05:46:43 UTC

after years of exploring all kinds of music to write to, I've found my way back to where I belong
#booksky #writesky #music
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2026-06-20 11:43:40 UTC

hydrangea in the night
#rainyseason #shonan
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2026-06-19 12:37:58 UTC

reading Vermillion Sands a 1971 short story collection by J.G. Ballard.
#ballard #surrealism #scifi
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2026-06-18 06:57:32 UTC

I was just interviewed by a journalist for the first time in my life. Here's hoping the article comes out okay.

2026-06-17 23:57:18 UTC

I’ve finally started to watch The Boys. I’m totally hooked. Everything is so demented and vile but there is a deep truth to the show. It definitely represents our present with far more honesty than any Marvel film ever could. If superheroes were real now, I bet this is just what it would be like.

2026-06-16 11:34:11 UTC

Those tremors certainly perked me up. Hello planet earth. Don't worry, we haven't forgotten you're there.
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2026-06-16 04:45:00 UTC

I will post every day starting today (a promise to myself)

2026-06-13 01:52:12 UTC

my talk on translating The Traveling Tree is today! Come sign up if you haven't already.
#nevent1q…u7r6

2026-06-08 07:48:55 UTC

come join my online talk for the Japan Association of Translators this Saturday (June 13th) 3:00-4:30 pm JST. I'll be discussing the process of translating The Traveling Tree, a memoir by photographer Michio Hoshino about his life in Alaska.
jat.org/ja/events/ev...
#japaneseliterature #translation
JATBOOK Webinar: Translating T...

2026-06-08 03:09:34 UTC

We are not "content consumers" but seekers of meaning, guided by the sparks and glimmers of art along the dark road of life.
#art

2026-06-06 05:58:00 UTC

Generative AI may ultimately be good for the arts. In posing the greatest challenge to them yet, it reminds us of the immeasurable value of human creativity.
#generativeAI #art

2026-06-04 10:20:31 UTC

To evaluate a work of art, whether song, novel, film, or anything else, one must be discriminating. In our efforts to avoid being discriminatory, we often lose sight of this inescapable truth.
#aesthetics #politics

2026-06-03 12:12:55 UTC

Venus and Jupiter after the typhoon
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2026-05-21 10:57:54 UTC

The Japan Association of Translators has invited me to give a webinar about my latest translation, The Traveling Tree by Michio Hoshino, on Saturday June 13th 3:00-4:30 pm JST. Translators, Hoshino fans, and book lovers—put it in your calendar.
jat.org/ja/events/ev...
#literature #translation
JATBOOK Webinar: Translating T...

2026-05-20 02:43:24 UTC

I've just finished writing the first draft of a Japanese novel. It's by far the longest thing I've ever written in the language. Now comes the hard part: revising it until it's ready for the eyes of an editor. Still, it feels good to have taken the story this far.
#novel #WriteSky #secondlanguage

2026-05-09 11:52:34 UTC

the light before sunset
#shonan #fujisawa
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2026-05-04 09:28:09 UTC

Original post: localization.cafe/@nosword/116...
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2026-05-04 02:01:14 UTC

She has bequeathed an astounding body of work to the world, the effects of which will continue to enlighten and inspire across the decades.

2026-05-04 02:01:14 UTC

I have fond memories of chatting with her and Minae Mizumura at a translation symposium after party and at the Yomiuri Literary Prize ceremony, when Keiichiro Hirano won for A Man, which I was in the middle of translating while Juliet was in the middle of translating his At The End of the Matinee.

2026-05-04 02:01:14 UTC

Very sad to hear of the passing of prolific translator Juliet Winters Carpenter. Over a career spanning more than fifty years, she translated dozens of books, from the novels of Kobo Abe, Miyuki Miyabe, Minae Mizumura, and Shiba Ryotaro to haiku, memoir, and buddhist philosophy.
#japaneseliterature

2026-04-16 07:25:46 UTC

while heading home on my bicycle, I spotted a young copper pheasant walking across the road.
#shonan #japan #pheasant
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2026-04-15 11:48:21 UTC

I'm looking into installing solar panels on our house, so I climbed up on the roof with the installer yesterday. I was expecting to be nervously watching my step the whole time, but a breeze was blowing, and it seemed like a nice place to lie down and have beer (not that I'd risk it)
#solarenergy
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2026-04-14 08:37:33 UTC

me last Saturday just before giving a talk and reading from my Japanese language debut short story Photo Bomber (フォトボマー), as part of SF Carnival, held at Daikanyama T-Site.
Photo c/o @sakaisampo.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
#SFカーニバル #SF #scifi #speculativefiction #exophony
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2026-04-12 01:57:33 UTC

The lifetime achievement award went to Junichiro Kida（紀田順一郎, 1935-2025), a critic, fantasy (genso) author, and key figure in the formation of domestic fandom. The award was received by fantasy author Hiroshi Aramata.

2026-04-12 01:57:33 UTC

Final photo (from the left): Kazuya Tsurumaki, Natsuhi Ito, Hiroshi Ramata, Chitoshi Shimizu (the COO of Pixiv, who sponsored the event)

2026-04-12 01:57:33 UTC

The grand prize winner was Norio Ito (伊藤典夫, 1942-present) for his Collected Criticism of Norio Ito, a mammoth tome some 1400 pages long (1412 to be precise!) that brings together decades of his critical writings on speculative fiction, dating all the way back to 1960.

2026-04-12 01:57:33 UTC

The special prize went to Sunrise Studios for Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX, a recent addition to the Gundam franchise. The award was received by director Kazuya Tsurumaki.

2026-04-12 01:57:33 UTC

Norio Ito's eldest son Natsuhi is pictured here receiving the award on his father’s behalf and subsequently giving a heartfelt speech. Norio was given a grim prognosis after contracting pneumonia last year but has since recovered enough to send a brief video message (pictured here).

2026-04-12 01:57:33 UTC

The award ceremony for the 46th Japan SF Grand Prix was held last night at Daikanyama T-Site in Tokyo. Congratulations to all the winners!
#Japan #SF #scifi #speculativefiction #award #ceremony
#日本SF大賞 #tokyo
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2026-04-09 04:12:39 UTC

Come hear me read from my latest short story, Photo Bomber ("フォトボマー") this Saturday at 2:45 pm, as part of SF Carnival. Speculative fiction talks and events happening at T-site in Daikanyama all weekend. Join us!
store.tsite.jp/daikanyama/s...
#scifi #speculativefiction #reading #festival #tokyo
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2026-04-02 05:29:12 UTC

when the government withdraws my income tax for last year from my account, I can declare that as a business expense on my tax return for next year, right? That is how it works, isn't it? (If only...)
#taxes #accounting #writesky

2026-03-22 09:28:23 UTC

started reading All Systems Red by Martha Wells. Let's see if this novel lives up to the hype.
#scifi #reading #hype #booksky
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2026-03-02 13:06:54 UTC

watch the recording of me reading from my latest translation, The Traveling Tree by Michio Hoshino, livestreamed March 1st from Human Arts Studio in Tsukuba. Then treat yourself to the smorgasbord of other readings.
youtu.be/cJ3LgHNQdh8?...
#japanese #literature #translation #reading #booksky
Japanese Literature in English...

2026-02-28 23:41:08 UTC

This is happening today! Don't miss it.
#japanese #literature #translation #reading #tsukuba #livestream #booksky
#nevent1q…ds2g

2026-02-27 06:54:05 UTC

Calling all literature lovers! I'll be reading this Sunday from my latest translation,The Traveling Tree by Michio Hoshino, alongside an epic roster of other translators. Watch the livestream, or come join us in Tsukuba!
#japanese #literature #translation #reading #tsukuba #livestream #booksky
Japanese Literature in English...

2026-02-25 01:38:48 UTC

my latest translation, The Traveling Tree by Michio Hoshino, receives its second review, this one in the Japan Times!
www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026...
#japanese #literature #travel #essay #nonfiction #translation #bookreview #booksky
‘The Traveling Tree’: Essays f...

2026-01-18 01:43:36 UTC

There must be some combination of factors that has sustained America's economic trajectory. Without these financial resilience comes apart. My wager is that democratic accountability is an ingredient in the secret economic sauce. The authoritarian turn may be a tipping point for USA being a safe bet

2025-10-19 07:30:59 UTC

sunset on Isshiki Beach in Hayama this past Friday.
I wish I could have captured the hundreds of tiny fish leaping from the calm sea as one in the dusk.
#sunset #shonan #hayama
#一色海岸
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