The debut novel from Hawaii-based author M. Thomas Gammarino<\/strong><\/a> is a deadly funny story of haunted progressive rock composer Brain Tedesco. The book has already received rave reviews; PF Kluge<\/strong><\/a> says it\u2019s \u201cseductive and devastating\u201d and Ron Currie Jr.<\/strong><\/a> calls Brain \u201cthe perfect hero for the Age of Anxiety.\u201d <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n ****************** Catch Tom at one of these events:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n East Coast:<\/strong><\/p>\n 12\/16 “I Had It Bad” Reading Series.\u00a0Happy Ending Lounge<\/a>, 302 Broome Street, New York, NY, 8pm<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 12\/17<\/strong> St. Joseph\u2019s University<\/a>, 5600 City Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 3pm<\/p>\n 12\/21<\/strong> \u201cAsia In The Age of Anxiety\u201d with Xiaoda Xiao<\/a>.\u00a0KGB Lit Bar<\/a>, 85 East Fourth Street, New York, NY, 7pm<\/p>\n 12\/23\u00a0Rocky Sullivan\u2019s<\/a>,\u00a034 Van Dyke Street, Brooklyn, NY,\u00a07pm<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 1\/2\u00a0Chester County Book and Music Co.<\/a>,\u00a0975 Paoli Pike, West Chester, PA,\u00a07pm<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n West Coast:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1\/6\u00a0Third Place Books Ravenna<\/a>,\u00a06504 20th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 7pm<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 1\/7\u00a0Sophia Books<\/a>,\u00a0450 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC,\u00a06:30pm<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 1\/8\u00a0Big in Japan: A Celebration with Pilot Books. <\/span>Little Red Bistro<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0400 Dexter Ave. N, Seattle, WA,\u00a06pm<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Big in Japan <\/em>is designed by JET alum Joshua Powell<\/strong><\/a> (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<\/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) is excited to host several reading events this upcoming week in New York and Philadelphia for their newest release, Big in Japan: A Ghost Story. The tour continues this January to Seattle and Vancouver. The debut novel from […]<\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[40,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-2z9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9867"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9891,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867\/revisions\/9891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"BIJCover\"](\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/BIJCover-202x299.jpg\" "\\"BIJCover\\"")
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