{"id":9025,"date":"2009-11-02T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T21:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=9025"},"modified":"2009-11-02T18:10:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T22:10:33","slug":"%e2%80%9cbig-in-japan-a-ghost-story%e2%80%9d-now-available-from-chin-music-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/02\/%e2%80%9cbig-in-japan-a-ghost-story%e2%80%9d-now-available-from-chin-music-press\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBig in Japan: A Ghost Story\u201d Now Available from Chin Music Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/strong>Chin Music Press<\/a><\/strong>, the Seattle-based publisher owned and run by Bruce Rutledge<\/a><\/strong> (MEF Program Chiba-ken, 1985-87)<\/strong> has just released its newest title, Big in Japan: A Ghost Story<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The debut novel from Hawaii-based author M. Thomas Gammarino<\/a><\/strong> is a deadly funny story of haunted progressive rock composer Brain Tedesco. The book has already received rave reviews; PF Kluge<\/a><\/strong> says it\u2019s \u201cseductive and devastating\u201d and Ron Currie<\/a><\/strong> Jr.<\/a><\/strong> calls Brain \u201cthe perfect hero for the Age of Anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the blurb from Big in Japan<\/em>\u2019s cover:<\/p>\n

While playing to lackluster crowds in their hometown of Philadelphia, progressive rock band Agenbite clings to the comforting half-truth that they\u2019re doing better in Japan. When their manager agrees to send them on a shoestring tour of that country, however, they\u2019re swiftly forced to give up their illusions and return Stateside.<\/p>\n

All but one of them, that is.<\/p>\n

Brain Tedesco, the band\u2019s variously haunted chief composer, has fallen in love\u00a0with a part-time sex worker\u2014the first woman ever to have touched him\u2014and his illusions have only just begun. What ensues is a Dantesque coming-of-age tale in which Brain must navigate the borderlands between fantasy and reality, past and present, sex and death\u2014even as forces beyond his control conspire to undo him.<\/p>\n

By turns compassionate and ruthless, erotic and grotesque, riotously serious and deadly funny, Big in Japan: A Ghost Story<\/em> is a sparkling, gut-wrenching, face-melting debut novel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Big in Japan <\/em>is designed by JET alum Joshua Powell<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong>(Saitama-ken 2005-07). <\/strong>The book is available through the Chin Music Press website<\/a> with promotional free shipping to the U.S. and Canada or at major booksellers.<\/p>\n

For book reviews and more information, visit Big in Japan<\/a><\/em>\u2019s website<\/a>. Check out previous JetWit posts about Bruce Rutledge and Chin Music Press here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

***** Chin Music Press, the Seattle-based publisher owned and run by Bruce Rutledge (MEF Program Chiba-ken, 1985-87) has just released its newest title, Big in Japan: A Ghost Story. The debut novel from Hawaii-based author M. Thomas Gammarino is a deadly funny story of haunted progressive rock composer Brain Tedesco. The book has already received […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t