he spoke about it during an interview that the mcnally jackson bookstore in new york city. this is 50 minutes. hello, everyone. welcome to mcnally jackson. it's nice to see you coming and we are being filmed for c-span. he longed for the unfiltered humanity he had experienced in japanese theater performances and films, witnesses to amsterdam and paris. one was a little frightening and completely unforgettable. that would enter this in the world here, on the way to the transformation of his own, for an outsider this was a place to be truly free. he's written about previously in the japanese near and behind the mask. tonight we are lucky that he is joined in conversation by the award-winning author of black deutschland. please make the author fare welcomed. [applause] >> i am very pleased to be here for our colleague and i will not be able to do the book justice. the gentleman was generous in his introduction and insult the very thing he was going to say. i cannot add live at all so i will just keep reading to you. as an experimentation, tokyo romance is a rare portrait of th

he spoke about it during an interview that the mcnally jackson bookstore in new york city. this is 50 minutes. hello, everyone. welcome to mcnally jackson. it's nice to see you coming and we are being filmed for c-span.