Eric Madeen

Eric Madeen is a formally retired associate professor of modern literature at

Tokyo City University and adjunct professor at Keio University. He's an

award-winning, unclassifiable author of six books (4 of them Amazon

bestsellers), and his writing has been published widely -- in Time, Asia Week,

The East, Daily Yomiuri, Tokyo Journal, Kyoto Journal, East of the Web,

Metropolis, Mississippi Review, ANA's inflight magazine Wingspan, Peace

Corps Worldwide, Japanophile, Yomimono, The Pretentious Idea, Tombstone

Epitaph, several anthologies & academic journals, therein his seminal essay

"Under Western and Eastern Eyes" jointly published by the Ministry of

Education of the Western Federation, Russia, and the Joseph

Conrad Foundation, USA, and so on.

Madeen has been featured in several radio interviews (12 in the USA and 2 in

Japan) and various print media. From a very early age reading and writing have

been as natural to him as breathing, and he once made his living copywriting for

then-world's largest ad agency Dentsu for clients as diverse as Mazda, Subaru,

Canon, Konica, Nikko Hotels International and Sony (Sony No Baloney!).

After earning his BA from the University of Arizona, he served for 2.3 years

as a Peace Corps volunteer in Francophone Gabon, Africa, where he built

a primary school complex in an equatorial village surrounded by

rainforest, a mind-blowing experience which inspired his first book entitled

"Water Drumming in the Soul: A Novel of Racy Love in the Heart of Africa,"

resonating with the personal and passionate all the way through to the

heart-wrenching end. His recently released sixth book "Tokyo-ing! Three

Novellas" chimes with anyone even remotely curious of taking a more

intimate, and thus rare look deep into "the nesting box of secrets" --

Paul Theroux quote to Madeen that went onto to challenge him to write

about the much hidden inner life of Japanese. Note: It's there in Tokyo-ing!

Madeen's Japan-immigration novel is set in historically rich Yokohama and entitled

"Tennis Clubbed, Snubbed and Rubbity-Dub Dubbed" which challenges an

ancient culture's barriers to the "gaijin" or outsider on and off the courts, with

the latter showing a penetrating, even hilarious look at Japanese University life.

Prior to that is his high-octane literary thriller "Massage World." By turns crystally

and exotic but always zesty, its plot twists and linkage are tight and full of surprises

... peopled as it is with a straight masseuse as heroine striving to open a glamorous

upscale health spa against a massage parlor lord employing a corrupt vice detective

and a rogues' gallery found in the nether reaches of a Dionysian dream. Finally

there's the travelogue "Asian Trail Mix: True Tales from Borneo to Japan" which

scales down the sprawl of Asia by laser focusing on the unique and revelatory,

from the razzmatazz of novice monks at play in northern Laos, bonding with

hustling pedicab drivers braving the mean streets of Saigon, and novel things

Japanese.

Finally, as voice is more than a language function but the sum totality of a writer's

experiences and means of expression, Madeen's lively, sure voice will take you

there. It is up to you to let him.

Eric Madeen resides in Yokohama and warmly invites you to drop in on him here:

www. ericmadeen .com