writersnoonereads: From wikipedia (which is based on this...

writersnoonereads:

From wikipedia (which is based on this timeline): 

In 1977, [Yayoi] Kusama published a book of poems and paintings entitled 7. One year later, her first novel Manhattan Suicide Addict appeared. Between 1983 and 1990, she finished the novels The Hustler’s Grotto of Christopher Street (1983), The Burning of St Mark’s Church (1985), Between Heaven and Earth (1988), Woodstock Phallus Cutter (1988), Aching Chandelier (1989), Double Suicide at Sakuragazuka (1989), and Angels in Cape Cod (1990), alongside several issues of the magazine S&M Sniper in collaboration with photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.

I think English-language readers would flock to the “shockingly visceral and surrealistic” Manhattan Suicide Addict and Woodstock Phallus Cutter. Someone should hire translator Ralph McCarthy and make it happen. Actually, there is a hard-to-find 1998 English-language book called Hustlers Grotto: Three Novellas…translated by McCarthy! [Image: First edition of Manhattan Suicide Addict, 1978 / Image courtesy: Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo / Yayoi Kusama, Yayoi Kusama Studio inc.]

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