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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 28/09/2026

my beloved bicycle, put into the shop for repairs over the summer, has returned! I purchased this used Surly, Long Haul Trucker from a good friend 8 years ago now and have ridden it every day since. After replacing both wheels and the entire drivetrain, she rides like a dream again. #bicycle #love

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 22/09/2026

Literary translation requires such an intense level of deep reading that once I'm done, I'm always tired of the original, however masterful, so I never re-read after publication. But recently I've found myself missing A Man (ある男) so I'm listening to the Japanese audiobook. #literarytranslation

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 21/09/2026

a river started to overflow right outside my front door today . I've lived here for six months but this is the first time I've seen this happen. Thankfully, the peak of typhoon #25 has now passed, and there has been no flooding in the house. #typhoon

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 10/09/2026

I went to Niagara this week and, for the first time in 20 years, boarded the boat that carries visitors to the base of the falls. The pouring mountain of water roared, the waves swelled, the boat yawed, the spray struck us like a downpour of rain, and rainbows appeared in the mist. #niagarafalls

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 16/08/2026

Last week I drove out into the Ontario countryside to watch the Perseid meteor shower, which peaked this year during the new moon. There were so many stars in the clear dark sky even an iPhone was up to capturing them. Between midnight and 1:30, I spotted some two dozen shooting stars. #perseids

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 07/08/2026

They're no shinkansens, but it's still nice to see these Go trains pass by. #Toronto

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 01/08/2026

I take this photo every time I return to Toronto. No piece of scenery could represent the city better. #Toronto

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 15/07/2026

In the spring, the handle came off a coffee cup with some sentimental value when I accidentally bumped it with another cup, so I decided to take it in for kintsugi repair. After leaving it with the workshop for about a month, I finally went to pick it up today. #kintsugi

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 14/07/2026

the paper edition has arrived at my house courtesy of the Mainichi! #thetravelingtree #michiohoshino

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 06/07/2026

I've started listening to Butter by Asako Yuzuki, a novel about a gourmet serial killer who seduces older men, cooks them fine meals, and scams them before murdering them. I'm only on chapter two, but the novel seems well-suited for audio adaptation, with its slow style of narration. #audiobook

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 05/07/2026

reading The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennet. I don't read a ton of fantasy these days, but this, the first novel by a male author to win a Hugo in a decade, got me curious. #booksky

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 28/06/2026

bee pollinating a hydrangea in the rain #typhoon #shonan

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 22/06/2026

English author J.G. Ballard on poets who generate poetry with computers, in his 1961 short story Studio 5, The Stars: "When I say they have everything to learn, I mean about their own hearts" #prescient #scifi #generativeAI

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 21/06/2026

after years of exploring all kinds of music to write to, I've found my way back to where I belong #booksky #writesky #music

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 19/06/2026

reading Vermillion Sands a 1971 short story collection by J.G. Ballard. #ballard #surrealism #scifi

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 16/06/2026

Those tremors certainly perked me up. Hello planet earth. Don't worry, we haven't forgotten you're there.

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 03/06/2026

Venus and Jupiter after the typhoon

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 04/05/2026

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 16/04/2026

while heading home on my bicycle, I spotted a young copper pheasant walking across the road. #shonan #japan #pheasant

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 15/04/2026

I'm looking into installing solar panels on our house, so I climbed up on the roof with the installer yesterday. I was expecting to be nervously watching my step the whole time, but a breeze was blowing, and it seemed like a nice place to lie down and have beer (not that I'd risk it) #solarenergy

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 14/04/2026

me last Saturday just before giving a talk and reading from my Japanese language debut short story Photo Bomber (フォトボマー), as part of SF Carnival, held at Daikanyama T-Site. Photo c/o @sakaisampo.bsky.social #SFカーニバル #SF #scifi #speculativefiction #exophony

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 12/04/2026

The award ceremony for the 46th Japan SF Grand Prix was held last night at Daikanyama T-Site in Tokyo. Congratulations to all the winners! #Japan #SF #scifi #speculativefiction #award #ceremony #日本SF大賞 #tokyo

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 09/04/2026

Come hear me read from my latest short story, Photo Bomber ("フォトボマー") this Saturday at 2:45 pm, as part of SF Carnival. Speculative fiction talks and events happening at T-site in Daikanyama all weekend. Join us! store.tsite.jp/daikanyama/s... #scifi #speculativefiction #reading #festival #tokyo

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 22/03/2026

started reading All Systems Red by Martha Wells. Let's see if this novel lives up to the hype. #scifi #reading #hype #booksky

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 16/03/2026

I'm beginning my exploration of exophonic novelists, who write in Japanese but whose mother tongue is another language, with Gregory Khezrnejat's Kamogawa Runner (鴨川ランナー). #exophonic #literature #japanese

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 08/02/2026

rare snowfall in Shonan today. It didn't faze these runners. #snow #japan #shonan

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 30/01/2026

backyard raked and rusty old laundry poles put out for the garbage collector. All outdoor tasks are now complete. T minus three days until the move. #moving

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 29/01/2026

sand from the parasol base disposed of, flower pots tidied, and documents boxed. T minus four days until the move. #moving

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 28/01/2026

bicycle shelter disassembled and front lawn raked. T minus five days until the move. #moving

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 27/01/2026

books from the DIY shelf in my writing room packed. T minus six days until the move. #moving

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 16/01/2026

my beginner's Chinese textbook just arrived. I'm starting with almost zero knowledge of the language (though knowing Japanese writing and English grammar is bound to help.) #beginner #chinese #mandarin #language #study

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 10/01/2026

I learned to read Japanese by working through Haruki Murakami's novels in order of publication, then took a break from him for many years. Now I'm returning to his work and have acquired all 14 of his short story collections, which I hope to read chronologically as well. #murakami #harukimurakami

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 02/01/2026

a visual metaphor for global humanity, all of us swirling together, evanescent, effervescent, unique and yet similar, agglomerating in our separateness, searching for a better way to expire #earthly #humankind #ephemeral #species #thrown #aswirl

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 31/12/2025

greeting the new year Zen style, to the ringing of the midnight bell and the mystic throb of the Heart Sutra. #zen #newyear #ceremony #kamakura #enkakuji #heartsutra #鎌倉＃円覚寺 #除夜の鐘 #般若心経

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 30/12/2025

Shadow Taker. A town I passed through yesterday. Hard to come up with a more enigmatic place name, or one that better suits the place, a no man's land at the corner of three different cities. #liminal #suburb #nomansland #nether #region #shonan

street sign reading 影取町 (kagetorichō) beside a red light.

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 27/12/2025

fending my way through the Kabukicho swarms on my way to a year end party. Here the sleaze of yesteryear is giving way to hollow tourist glitz. Do you want safety or soul? You can’t have both. #kabukuicho #tokyo

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 27/12/2025

My introduction to Japan was taking an intensive Japanese course at ICU in Mitaka one summer, so walking the wooded paths of the campus to give a talk on world building last month brought back so many memories. #ICU #Mitaka #Tokyo #Japanese #study #summerabroad #wistful #nostalgic #memories

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 26/12/2025

went to the open house for a new tourist accommodation in my neighbourhood. The owner has converted a kominka into short term lodgings. The rooms seemed spartan and overpriced, but the zen garden and the view were nice. #openhouse #inn #kominka #shonan #zengarden #view #japan #tourism #boom

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 23/12/2025

picked up a copy of this antique 1929 manga by author and artist Nio Mizushima. I'll translate the title for now as Country Bumpkinski in the Big City. It's a comedy, including one section that features a rather silly robopocalypse #antique #manga #early #showa #scifi #robot #robopocalypse #comedy

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 25/11/2025

Calling all Tokyo writers and wordsmiths! Come hear my presentation on the craft of world building this Saturday Nov 29 at 4:30 on the ICU campus in Mitaka. Part of the 2025 Japan Writers Conference happening this weekend. Attendance is free! japanwritersconference.org #writesky #worldbuilding

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 18/11/2025

Look what just arrived: copies of my latest translation! Released in the UK last week and due for release in the USA this February. The Traveling Tree by Michio Hoshino, translated by yours truly: www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T... #booksky #newrelease #travelwriting #memoir #translation #japanese

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 07/11/2025

At last! My translation of Michio Hoshino's The Traveling Tree is out today in the UK! I’ve been dying to translate this beautiful book for more than 15 years. Read my thoughts on translating it: substack.com/home/post/p-... Or purchase a copy: www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T... #japaneseliterature

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 02/11/2025

I never watch sports or turn on videos while writing in the morning, but the Jays in game 7 of the World Series? Brings me back to childhood in Toronto when the Jays won back to back World Series Nostalgia aside, this tournament is symbolic within the geopolitical context #BlueJays #WorldSeries

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 29/10/2025

clouds over Kawasaki at sunset. Taken from Haneda Airport terminal 3. #kawasaki #sunset #clouds #haneda #airport

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 26/10/2025

To select stories for the anthology of classic Japanese sci-fi I'm editing for MIT Press, I started reading this 1971 collection of pre-WWII short stories Today I read the 1925 short story The Man Traveling With the Brocade Portrait (押絵と旅する男) by Edogawa Ranpo #japanese #classic #scifi #anthology

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 25/10/2025

me giving my first reading in the Japanese language last week. As part of a Kamakura Poetry Festival event held last Wednesday, I read the opening to my latest short story, Photo Bomber (「フォトボマー」), which appears in the anthology Fear and SF (恐怖とSF), published last month by Hayakawa. #scifi

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