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A little after two, we made it back to Minowa, the closest station to my place. Stopping along the way for a 210-yen bowl of noodles, we braved the heat and walked the ten minutes home, while the cries of cicadas smeared the atmosphere.
Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett, • Breasts and Eggs
Shobashi comes alive at night. From appearances, it’s a dump. And from sundown to sun-up, on the third floor of a building throbbing with karaoke reverb, you’ll find the bar where Makiko works, five nights a week, from seven until around midnight.
Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett, • Breasts and Eggs
‘Well then, Mr Taro Yamada. Let’s get to business. What dish are you looking for?’ asked Koishi. ‘I’d like you to help me with a certain kind of mackerel sushi.’ ‘What kind, exactly?’ asked Koishi, scribbling away with her pen. ‘The refined type they serve at the Izu restaurant? Or something a bit more rough and ready, like you get at Hanaori?’
Jesse Kirkwood • The Kamogawa Food Detectives
Chicago is a collection of dreams flickering with hustle and quietude, an empty storefront with a line out the door. The exacting grid, western bound streets, the sun setting, and back-lit signs no longer saying a thing.
That famous triangle, “fast, cheap, good—pick two”, doesn't really apply here. In Chicago, we deliver all thr... See more
The Company You Keep
of men again. But now I had made my home by the shore. Sometimes, after staying in a village parlor till the family had all retired, I have returned to the woods, and, partly with a view to the next day's dinner, spent the hours of midnight fishing from a boat by moonlight, serenaded by owls and foxes, and hearing, from time to time, the creaking n
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