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Since London is almost an impossible place to keep up with and I do not subscribe to the Time Out London I am going to give you to very sincere recommendations. For once they will not be about travel or anything, they will just be about things to read, one online and the other one offline.

For the online one, a new and very interesting blog about politics in the UK was launched today.  

The second one is a little talk that is going to happen at the UCL Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 tomorrow Tuesday 25 September. Unfortunately I can not post a link hence the offline bit, because apparently there is some people out there that insist on adding the session ids to the URLs. Too bad for them.

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Author Arthur Golden interviewed Iwasaki while researching for his novel Memoirs of a Geisha. He promised to maintain absolute confidentiality but he thanked her by name in the book's acknowledgements. Iwasaki felt betrayed by that mention to her name and also by the manipulation of her personal life.

For Iwasaki's association with Golden's inaccurate portrayal of the geisha world, she has been shunned in Gion Kobu and treated with hostility.

As a result Iwasaki sued Golden for breach of contract and defamation of character. Golden chose to settle out of court in February 2003.

She wrote her true story in Geisha of Gion: The Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki.

This entry was posted back in January 30, 2006. 

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