A Bridge of Words

Co-op available

Galleys available

National print campaign

Galleys/e-galleys sent to: The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Japan Times, Kyoto Journal, Japan Forward, Nippon, Nikkei Asian Review, LA Times, National Book Review, Book Forum, Book Riot, Booklist, BookPage, Foreword, Kirkus, Library Journal, NPR, Pop Matters, Portland Book Review, City Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Rain Taxi, SF Chronicle, Shelf Awareness, The Guardian, Washington Post, Seattle Times, JQ Magazine, Asian Review of Books, Books on Asia.

Online/social media campaign

Tokyo Weekender, Metropolis Japan

General eBook marketing plans

eBook will be available at the same time as print publication to maximize sales

eBook ISBN will be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed

publisher and author will be promoting both e and p through social media

Excerpts in

Books on Asia, Lithub, Asian Review of Books, Asia Pacific Journal

Bookseller/Library promotions

Book will be promoted at the Association of Asian Studies in 2023.

Special outreach for reviews and interviews with the author English-language Japanese media including NHK, The Japan Times, The Asahi Shimbun, Japan Today and more.

Edelweiss and Netgalley digital review copies to the trade and blogs.

Podcast interviews with book related podcasts such as Books on Asia, Asian Review of Books.

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Prolific, award-winning translator of classical and modern Japanese poetry Hiroaki Sato recorded his thoughts on American society in mainly two columns across 30-plus years, collected here for the first time.

This anthology of over 60 of Sato’s commentaries reflect the writer’s wide-ranging erudition and his unsentimental views of both his native Japan and his adopted American homeland. Broadly he looks at the Pacific War and its aftermath and at war (and our love of it) in general, at the quirks and curiosities of the natural world exhibited by birds and other creatures, at friends and mentors who surprised and inspired, and finally at other writers and their works, many of them familiar—the Beats and John Ashbery, for example, and Mishima—but many others whose introduction is welcome. 

Sato is neither cheerleader nor angry expatriate. Remarkably clear-eyed and engaged with American culture, he is in the business of critical appraisal and translation, of taking words seriously, and of observing how well others write and speak to convey their own truths and ambitions.