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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 Literature —show 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)

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Real nameJessica Brown

LocationPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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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

posted by AlexAustin at 6:38 pm (EST) on Jun 1, 2012

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

posted by AlexAustin at 6:28 pm (EST) on Oct 28, 2010

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

posted by AlexAustin at 12:07 pm (EST) on Jan 31, 2010

I enjoyed your review of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles. Some of your sentences were composed like Murakami's

posted by AlexAustin at 1:07 pm (EST) on Dec 30, 2009

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

posted by cmtusa at 8:45 pm (EST) on Sep 3, 2009

Hi,...

posted by JeffRiveraAuthor1 at 5:52 am (EST) on Aug 3, 2009

Thanks....

posted by JeffRiveraAuthor1 at 6:26 am (EST) on Jul 27, 2009

Thanks for accepting me as your friend. I'm enjoying looking at your books.

posted by JeffRiveraAuthor1 at 4:29 am (EST) on Jul 20, 2009

Hi, you are having a nice blog....

posted by GumboWriters321 at 1:14 am (EST) on Jun 15, 2009

Nice to meet you here

posted by GumboWriters321 at 1:37 am (EST) on Jun 8, 2009

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.

posted by TrebleClef at 3:33 pm (EST) on Dec 12, 2008

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!

posted by PhoenixTerran at 4:15 pm (EST) on Sep 10, 2008

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? :)

posted by refuge at 8:31 am (EST) on Aug 14, 2008

Thanks for your thoughtful remarks re Kirino's Real World.

posted by LouisBranning at 5:21 pm (EST) on Jul 21, 2008

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.

posted by slickdpdx at 11:43 am (EST) on May 16, 2008

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.

posted by slickdpdx at 8:33 pm (EST) on May 13, 2008

Lit reading tonight, see Josh Cohen Reading at Kiva Han

posted by SmPressPgh at 1:21 pm (EST) on Mar 25, 2008

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!

posted by SmPressPgh at 10:12 am (EST) on Mar 18, 2008

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

zette

posted by zette at 8:17 pm (EST) on Dec 6, 2007

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