Pure TokyoScope Podcast 103: How We Write!
Pure TokyoScope Podcast 103: How We Write!
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture from Japan!
In this episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) peel back the curtain on how they approach writing their many books and articles about Japanese pop culture: the research, the editing, the procrastination!
SHOW NOTES!
Japanese publisher to launch 'light novel' app with AI-assisted translations
Matt’s Book Pure Invention: How Japan Invented the Modern World
Dave Berry Does Japan (1992)
Trailer for One Crazy Summer (1986)
What is the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast? Well… Author and fellow Substack writer Matt Alt and I have been recording together for over 100 episodes.
Our show is a mix of Japanese pop culture news and features and some of our best episodes to date have been:
New Book from the Author and Editor of TokyoScope Blog!
Mondo Tokyo - Dispatches From a Secret Japan
On Sale Now!
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This was my favorite pod of the several I’ve listened to so far - I’ll push back only the value of personal experience in writing - I’d argue it’s increasingly more important and interesting as AI gets better and better at storytelling from a nonattached, distant POV - I predict, in nonfiction at least, that this development will only make readers hungrier for real, personal stories told well. After all, the personal is the universal.
The strength of the material you guys cover, in fact, is already your own personal selves in the first place. Plenty of other Japan related things out there - but only two of you - amirite?
Keep rocking comrades