David Gordon: Big in Japan

David Gordon is the author of two novels and a collection of short stories, “White Tiger on Snow Mountain,” out this fall: NYT

For a week, I did interviews, met critics and fans, visited bookshops. Readers admired my views on literature and my deep understanding of women — things few readers (or women) think here. I traveled everywhere with an entourage, signing books aided by two assistants, one who held the book for me, another who blotted my signature with tissue. People toasted me and applauded my ability to eat with chopsticks or sign my name really big on a poster.