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60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys... and Baseball
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Robert Whiting
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Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world.
Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes face to face with the city’s dark underbelly, interviews Japan’s baseball elite after publishing his first best-selling book on the subject, and learns how politics and sports collide to produce a cultural landscape unlike any other, even as a new Olympics is postponed and the COVID virus ravages the nation.
A colorful social history of what Anthony Bourdain dubbed, “the greatest city in the world”, Tokyo Junkie is a revealing account by an accomplished journalist who witnessed it all firsthand and, in the process, had his own dramatic personal transformation.
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Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage - a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling, shrewd cultural insight, and warm sense of humor that are the trademarks of his work. Over the last decade, as a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three books, Peter Hessler has lived in Asia and the United States, writing as both native and knowledgeable outsider in these two very different regions.
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Welcome to New York’s legendary hotel for women, the Barbizon. Liberated after WWI from home and hearth, women flocked to New York City during the Roaring Twenties. But even as women’s residential hotels became the fashion, the Barbizon stood out; it was designed for young women with artistic aspirations, and included soaring art studios and soundproofed practice rooms. More importantly still, with no men allowed beyond the lobby, the Barbizon signaled respectability, a place where a young woman of a certain class could feel at home.
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Anna Fifield reconstructs Kim's past and present with exclusive access to sources near him and brings her unique understanding to explain the dynastic mission of the Kim family in North Korea. The archaic notion of despotic family rule matches the almost medieval hardship the country has suffered under the Kims. Few people thought that a young, untested, unhealthy, Swiss-educated basketball fanatic could hold together a country that should have fallen apart years ago. But Kim Jong Un has not just survived, he has thrived.
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An exuberant and insightful work of popular history of how streets got their names, houses their numbers, and what it reveals about class, race, power, and identity. When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won’t get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class.
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The Plaza is the account of one vaunted New York City address that has become synonymous with wealth and scandal, opportunity and tragedy. With glamour on the surface and strife behind the scenes, it is the story of how one hotel became a mirror reflecting New York's place at the center of the country's cultural narrative for over a century.
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Dangerous, filthy, and falling apart, garbage piled on its streets and entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble; New York’s terrifying, if liberating, state of nature in 1978 also made it the capital of American culture. Over the next thirty-plus years, though, it became a different place - kinder and meaner, richer and poorer, more like America and less like what it had always been.
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As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval. In Age of Ambition, he describes the greatest collision taking place in that country: the clash between the rise of the individual and the Communist Party’s struggle to retain control.
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Over his 30-year career at Condé Nast, Nicholas Coleridge has witnessed it all. From the anxieties of the Princess of Wales to the blazing fury of Mohamed Al-Fayed, his story is also the story of the people who populate the glamorous world of glossy magazines. With relish and astonishing candour, he offers the inside scoop on Tina Brown and Anna Wintour, David Bowie and Philip Green, Kate Moss and Beyonce and a surreal weekend away with Bob Geldof and William Hague.
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St. Marks Is Dead
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St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the street's apex.
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Great Content
It was a great recollection of a life lived in Japan. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the country.
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- Hiroshi Sato
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Nice walk down memory lane!
Note: Almost every Japanese word was pronounced incorrectly and takes away from the overall story telling.
I arrived in Tokyo in March of 1990 and am still here today. I left for a few years and lived in Europe for a few years and could only think about going back to Tokyo. I am American and also did a brief stint in the US in 2000. I came back to Tokyo in 2001 and never looked back.
I never experienced the Happy Valley days but certainly heard about them from long timers but know the bubble time and can resonate with many of the places and types of places that Robert talks about. Kabukicho, Roppongi, Ueno, Ginza, Yurakucho and so on. I also went to Maggies Revenge (a name that brought back many memories when I read it), Julianas and many many local yakitori places that I went that are no longer there. There were also many nights that I was at Nicolas Pizza place after a night of drinking in Roppongi and I met the man several times myself but did not know any of his history. I have also had my share of interactions with the yakuza but nowhere near the scale that Robert talks about but do understand the emotions.
Things have changed so much and so many of the old places are gone but Tokyo still endures and endears to those who can even unearth a few of this magnificent cities secrets. There is always be secrets to unearth in Tokyo. I will be here for the rest of my life.
Lovely book with lots of great memories for me.
(Please redo with someone who knows how to pronounce Japanese words.)
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- robert
- 07-17-22
Great Narrator
This is a very entertaining book. I've visited Tokyo and roamed the streets. I'm no expert and don't speak the language. This Narrator is great. Whole he may not pronounce words correctly, he makes up for it with his tone and style. I believe he narrated another book called Dancing bears, which is equally entertaining. It's funny how those who are familiar with Japanese culture and the language would complain about a great Narrator who mispronounced a couple words. We would expect as much. I give the story and narrator 5 stars!
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- KJ
- 07-17-21
Now I must visit Tokyo
Excellent book all around. Please release some more of Mr. Whitings book on your site!!
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- Anonymous User
- 08-19-23
Insightful!
The story is candid and interesting. But should hire a narrator who are familiar with Japanese language.
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- M.L.
- 12-16-21
Narration horrible
Excellent book but I cannot excuse the horrendous butchering in the pronunciation of Japanese words and phrases.
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- JK
- 09-20-22
INFORMATIVE
Interesting book, fast moving with a lot of information. Different sites in Tokyo, which you can look up in Google Earth.
Japan post WWII is also mentioned. It is a fast moving story and it made me want to pack my bags and head for Tokyo.
I totally enjoyed the book.
The narrator, mr. Stephan Rudnicki, as usual, is a joy to listen to.
My thanks to all involved, JK.
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- Oleg
- 05-08-23
Great perspective on Tokyo
I just came back from my trip to the city, and I wanted to fill the gaps with my knowledge about Tokyo in Japan in general. There’s just no better way to do it then listen to person that spent half a century that city and has a very unique perspective.
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- Richard A.
- 12-07-21
Great
This is one of the best books I’ve listened to this year. I got it through Audible Plus but would gladly have paid a credit for it (not something you can usually say about a Plus selection).
I’ve read the author’s previous book about Tokyo and enjoyed it immensely. This book is part memoir part history of postwar Tokyo up to 2020. The author’s had a fascinating life, of the type that would only have been possible for a brief moment in history.
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- John Fahy
- 12-01-21
Tokyo terrific
A wonderful romp through five decades of Tokyo history as experienced through the eyes if an adventurous gaijin. Only downfall was the narrator who mispronounced nearly all Japanese words and place names. Despite this, the narrative shone through and the listen was truly enthralling.
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