Japanese lit fans in Seattle, a great translator, Jay Rubin, will be speaking tomorrow at Elliott Bay Book Co. at 7:30 pm.

Rubin is now living in the Seattle area, so we may be able to see more of him. For those of you who like Japanese literature but may not always notice the translator's name, here's some of what Professor Rubin has brought us: Norwegian Wood and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (not to mention the next Murakami book, After Dark, due out in a month or so), the writings of Natsume Soseki, and most recently, Rashomon and 17 Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (with an introduction from Murakami.