Book Worlds
Jay Fidell and Elise Anderson cover the 12th Annual Hawaii Book and Music Festival. The Festival brings together the community, authors, publishers, storytellers, musicians, and other artists. The coverage includes clips from a show with Roger Jellinek, the Festival Organizer. The walked around and spoke to some of the participants, including authors, publishers, volunteers from […]
Yakudoshi: The Age Of Calamity
Chris McKinney’s seventh novel takes place in Hawaii’s underworld of lounge bars, drugs, gambling and crime. In Japan, people believe that there are years in a person’s life that are bad luck. For men, the worst is 41. It is yakudoshi. It is the age of calamity. Bruce Blanc, fresh off a nine-year prison jolt […]