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CollectionsYour library (430), Currently reading (2), All collections (430)

Reviews51 reviews

Tagshorror (49), 2008 (43), Japanese (40), manga (34), female author (29), reviewed (24), vampire (14), religion (11), reincarnation (11), short story (11) — see all tags

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About meI'm a writer of mostly short fiction living in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. My serial novel Rain can be found on Facebook.

About my libraryMost of my library right now consists of translated Japanese novels, comics and nonfiction, because that's what I've been buying within the last year. The rest of my books, saved since about middle school, are predominantly horror. I spent most of my childhood and young adulthood reading horror nearly exclusively, and as a short story writer I cut my storytelling teeth on the genre as well. Most of those books are in storage, tucked lovingly away until the day comes that I have enough shelf space to display them again.

Groups50 Book Challenge, Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction, Awful Lit., Banned Books, Chadou, the Way of Tea (Japanese tea ceremony), Cookbookers, Crime, Thriller & Mystery, Erotica, Japanese Culture, Japanese Literatureshow all groups

Favorite authorsMax Barry, Francesca Lia Block, Poppy Z. Brite, Natsuo Kirino, Miyuki Miyabe, Haruki Murakami, Ryū Murakami, Asa Nonami, Christopher Pike, Randy Taguchi, Genichiro Takahashi, Taichi Yamada (Shared favorites)

Homepagehttp://jessicarbrown.blogspot.com

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Real nameJessica Brown

LocationPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Emailjessica.r.browngmail.com

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Member sinceAug 22, 2007

Currently readingTokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore by Ray Loriga
Every Sigh, the End: A Novel About Zombies by Jason S. Hornsby

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Hi Jessica,

Still struggling with the new novel. At least some of it is surfacing.

Two top literary magazines have just published excerpts from my novel-in-progress THE FATHER WHO NEVER YELLED. One excerpt (UV-30 http://carte-blanche.org ) is realistic, robust and sad, the other (Night Swim http://www.thiszine.org/) is surrealistic, sensual and mysterious. Read in tandem, they should give you a solid feel for the new book.

Best,

Alex
If you didn't get a chance to read it in paperback, The Red Album of Asbury Park Remixed is now up as a podcast on Podiobooks.com Woven into the podcast are the songs of 20 contemporary Asbury Park bands (the legacy of Springsteen) Podiobooks.com is free and hassle free. The direct URL is http://www.podiobooks.com/title/the-red-album-of-asbury-park-remixed/

Best,

Alex
In its series on “Underappreciated Authors,” The Librarything group Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple is doing a month-long interview with me about my novel The Red Album of Asbury Park Remixed. The interview starts February 1. If the intersection of fiction and music interests you, please drop by. The URL is http://www.librarything.com/topic/82398 Alex
I enjoyed your review of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles. Some of your sentences were composed like Murakami's
Noticed you liked Out by Natsuo Kirino, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here, as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also gritty, a bit violent, and a bit dark :) I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Here's a link to a summary (and a sample chapter) in case you'd like to read more about the novel before you commit.

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris
Hi,...
Thanks....
Thanks for accepting me as your friend. I'm enjoying looking at your books.
Hi, you are having a nice blog....
Nice to meet you here
The feedback on this thing is tremendous. xD I literally didn't spend any time on it at all, its not even a full analysis of it's severe lack of quality... but be my guest to post it on your blog! It would be an honor, I'm truly glad you enjoyed it. It nice to know I didn't waste my time like I originally suspected I would.
Hi Jessica! Thanks for adding BannedBooksLibrary to your Interesting Libraries. If you're interested in helping out with the project, just let me know. Happy Reading!
Hi Jessica, in one of your posts on 'Dance, Dance, Dance' by Murakami, you mentioned that you had a .pdf of 'Pinball, 1973'. Any chance you're willing to share that with me, or let me know where you got it? :)
Thanks for your thoughtful remarks re Kirino's Real World.
A lot of experimental writing doesn't work well in anything much longer than a short story. (Sayanora worked, in part, by breaking everything into little pieces, a common experimental gambit.) Anyhow, The Feverhead, which I read only recently, might be worth checking out if you are looking for an experimental/bizarre and still readable short (!) novel. Also, you can find it cheap, $3.99 or so, plus shipping, on alibris or amazon.
I read Sayanora, Gangsters over the last few days. No one does absurd like the Japanese! I liked the middle, poetry school, section the best. Thanks for the recommendation.
Lit reading tonight, see Josh Cohen Reading at Kiva Han
I have been looking for some help, actually, what aspects would you be interested in helping with? Are you involved with any of the publishing scenes in town--comics, zines, poetry, etc.?

Thank you for asking!
Thank you for the comment about the NaNo guide book! I hope it helps you next year. It was fun to write!

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