July 31, 2013
Scottish Book Trust
Book Talk: The Literary Summer Heats Up
Ryan Van Winkle
Japan Times: A diary washed ashore opens up a world of multiple realities →
“A good read transcends into the eternal, melding the real now with a timeless present. Ruth Ozeki’s “A Tale for the Time Being” is all that and more: a quietly amazing achievement, a careful construct bridging quantum physics and the role of the reader/observer, a Zen eternity of multiple realities within a single I-novel/not a novel.”
July 14, 2013
The Japan Times
A diary washed ashore opens up a world of multiple realities
Kris Kosaka
Guardian Books podcast: A world in transit →
“Michelle de Kretser and Ruth Ozeki talk about novels which span the globe, while Jo Glanville and Evie Wyld discuss a literary world in motion”
June 28, 2013
The Guardian
Guardian Books podcast: A world in transit
Richard Lea
Omnivoracious: Ruth Ozeki on Zen and the Art of Creativity →
“Like both of Ozeki’s other books, this one can be read on at least two levels: it’s a story within a story about a lonely Japanese girl and it’s a way to write about old Japan vs. new, about traditional Japanese womanhood versus contemporary Japanese American women, about, as Ozeki says, authenticity.”
April 08, 2013
Omnivoracious
Interview: Ruth Ozeki on Zen and the Art of Creativity
Sara Nelson
Times Literary Supplement: If not now, when? →
“Reaching the final pages of this fine book, the reader realizes that solace is contained in resolution’s very opposite, uncertainty, offering us the far greater gift of possibility instead.”
April 5, 2013
Times Literary Supplement
If not now, when? (PDF)
Natasha Leher