Meredith McKinney's guest appearances

Meredith McKinney

The Hedgehog and the Fox

Whole-Hearted Eating ™ with Dana Monsees & Cristina Hoyt

Books on Asia

Kyndra Holley

Will Cole

Kara Loewentheil

Steph Gaudreau

Martin Kemp

Scott Wilson

Hannah Erickson

Kristina Bruce

Cristina Curp

Meg Doll

Noelle Tarr

Kirsten Ackerman

Marci Evans

Ragen Chastain

Susan Hyatt

OwlTail

On this episode of the Books on Asia Podcast, sponsored by Stone Bridge Press, we have guest interviewer Lisa Wilcut speaking with award-winning writer and translator Meredith McKinney. McKinney is translator of many Japanese classics such as Sei Shonagon's 11th-century "The Pillow Book" and the 14th-century "Essays in Idleness," which was published along with "Hōjōki." She has also translated "Kusamakura" and "Kokoro" (see our review) by Natsume Sōseki, one of Japan's most celebrated modern writers. Today, she is going to talk about her long career and also about her just-released book on the wandering poet Saigyō called "Gazing at the Moon" (Shambala, September, 2021).The Books on Asia Podcast is sponsored by Stone Bridge Press, publisher of fine books on Asia for over 30 years. Subscribe to the Books on Asia Podcast.About the InterviewerLisa Wilcut is a writer, editor, translator, and educator based in Yokohama. She writes and edits works on Japanese culture for both scholarly and general audiences and teaches courses in Japanese society and culture as well as philosophy at the University of Maryland Global Campus in Yokosuka. She holds an MA in Japanese language and literature from Stanford University and an MA in philosophy from San Francisco State University. She also writes short fiction and poetry. Find her on LinkedIn.

On this episode of the Books on Asia Podcast, sponsored by Stone Bridge Press, we have guest interviewer Lisa Wilcut speaking with award-winning writer and translator Meredith McKinney. McKinney is translator of many Japanese classics such as Sei Shonagon's 11th-century "The Pillow Book" and the 14th-century "Essays in Idleness," which was published along with "Hōjōki." She has also translated "Kusamakura" and "Kokoro" (see our <a href="https://booksonasia.net/2021/10/06/review-kokoro-by-natsume-soseki/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">review</a>) by Natsume Sōseki, one of Japan's most celebrated modern writers. Today, she is going to talk about her long career and also about her just-released book on the wandering poet Saigyō called "Gazing at the Moon" (Shambala, September, 2021).The Books on Asia Podcast is sponsored by <a href="http://www.stonebridge.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stone Bridge Press</a>, publisher of fine books on Asia for over 30 years. <a href="https://linktr.ee/booksonasia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe</a> to the Books on Asia Podcast.About the InterviewerLisa Wilcut is a writer, editor, translator, and educator based in Yokohama. She writes and edits works on Japanese culture for both scholarly and general audiences and teaches courses in Japanese society and culture as well as philosophy at the University of Maryland Global Campus in Yokosuka. She holds an MA in Japanese language and literature from Stanford University and an MA in philosophy from San Francisco State University. She also writes short fiction and poetry. Find her on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisawilcut/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>.

Meredith McKinney on Saigyō and "Gazing at the Moon"

Meredith McKinney is a dietitian who works with women and athletes to bridge science with intuition and find an attuned way of living free of dieting, restriction, and food/body obsession. On the show today we’re discussing the female athlete triad, non-diet nutrition for athletes, and how to approach nutrition in a neutral, non-restrictive way for...

The Female Athlete Triad & Non-Diet Nutrition for Athletes with Meredith McKinney

This week, another interview in the series of Conversations with Translators. My guest is Meredith McKinney, a translator from Japanese whose anthology of classical Japanese travel writing was published in Penguin Classics at the end of last year.I was alerted to her book by an excellent review of it by PD Smith in the Guardian:‘In this remarkable work of translation and scholarship, filled with wonderful vignettes of Japanese life and sensibility, McKinney introduces readers to the nation’s rich and unique literary tradition.’The anthology takes the story of Japanese literature up to the late 17th century and the poet Basho, who wrote The Narrow Road to the Deep North, having begun around a thousand years earlier. In this interview, Meredith explained that the Western reader needs to set aside certain preconceptions of what travel writing is in approaching her book:We think of travel writing really as writing about adventure; the traveller going off and witnessing new things, discovering new things about themselves and other people and other places. Newness is probably the essence of what we think about in travel writing, whereas this travel writing is hugely about its own tradition: going back and touching the things that earlier travellers had touched was really the touchstone, as it were, of so much of this writing.Meredith lived and taught in Japan for around twenty years, then returned to Australia in 1998 and now lives near the small town of Braidwood, in south-eastern New South Wales. She is currently an honorary associate professor at the Japan Centre, Australian National University.The post Conversations with Translators: Meredith McKinney appeared first on The Hedgehog and the Fox. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, another interview in the series of <a href="https://www.podularity.com/thehedgehogandthefox/category/conversations-with-translators/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Conversations with Translators</a>. My guest is <a href="http://meredithmckinney.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Meredith McKinney</a>, a translator from Japanese whose <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/305/305818/travels-with-a-writing-brush/9780241310878.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">anthology of classical Japanese travel writing</a> was published in Penguin Classics at the end of last year.I was alerted to her book by an excellent review of it by PD Smith in the Guardian:<blockquote>‘In this remarkable work of translation and scholarship, filled with wonderful vignettes of Japanese life and sensibility, McKinney introduces readers to the nation’s rich and unique literary tradition.’</blockquote>The anthology takes the story of Japanese literature up to the late 17th century and the poet Basho, who wrote The Narrow Road to the Deep North, having begun around a thousand years earlier. In this interview, Meredith explained that the Western reader needs to set aside certain preconceptions of what travel writing is in approaching her book:<blockquote>We think of travel writing really as writing about adventure; the traveller going off and witnessing new things, discovering new things about themselves and other people and other places. Newness is probably the essence of what we think about in travel writing, whereas this travel writing is hugely about its own tradition: going back and touching the things that earlier travellers had touched was really the touchstone, as it were, of so much of this writing.</blockquote>Meredith lived and taught in Japan for around twenty years, then returned to Australia in 1998 and now lives near the small town of Braidwood, in south-eastern New South Wales. She is currently an honorary associate professor at the Japan Centre, Australian National University.The post <a href="https://www.podularity.com/thehedgehogandthefox/2020/04/05/conversations-with-translators-meredith-mckinney/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Conversations with Translators: Meredith McKinney</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.podularity.com/thehedgehogandthefox" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">The Hedgehog and the Fox</a>. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Conversations with Translators: Meredith McKinney