Fall into Reading with JANM Book Club’s “Monster Maker” on November 15

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WHAT:
Join author Debbi Michiko Florence and artist Mark Nagata for a special reading of Monster Maker: The Strange Creatures of Mark Nagata.

WHEN:
Saturday, November 15, 2025, from 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m.

DETAILS: 
Following the reading will be a conversation with:

• Maria Kwong, JANM’s Director of Retail Enterprise and curator of Kaiju vs Heroes, the exhibition that first connected the Debbi to Mark.
• Debbi Michiko Florence, author of Monster Maker
• Mark Nagata, toy designer, painter, illustrator, and collector

WHERE: 
Japanese American National Museum
Democracy Center
100 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012

RSVP:
RSVP at janm.org/events.

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About the Japanese American National Museum (JANM)

Established in 1985, JANM promotes understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity by sharing the Japanese American experience. Located in the historic Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles, JANM is a center for civil rights, ensuring that the hard-fought lessons of the World War II incarceration are not forgotten. A Smithsonian Affiliate and one of America’s Cultural Treasures, JANM is a hybrid institution that straddles traditional museum categories. JANM is a center for the arts as well as history. It provides a voice for Japanese Americans and a forum that enables all people to explore their own heritage and culture. Since opening to the public in 1992, JANM has presented over one hundred exhibitions onsite while traveling forty exhibits to venues such as the Smithsonian Institution and the Ellis Island Museum in the United States, and to several leading cultural museums in Japan and South America. JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus, throughout Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Southern California, and beyond from early January 2025 through late 2026. For more information, visit janm.org/OnTheGo or follow us on social media @jamuseum.