5.5.09: I'm giving a talk on cell-phone novels at the Japan Society in New York. The program, with Mark West, a professor of Japanese law at the University of Michigan, is called Lovesick Japan: Stories of Intimacy from Courts to Keitai (Cell Phone) Novels. 333 E. 47th Street, N.Y., N.Y. 6:30 PM. Tickets are $10.