Here are stories that arrive from our global future, made from shards of many local, personal pasts. In the age of anime,
amazingly, Japanese literature thrives.
-Paul Anderer, Professor of Japanese, Columbia University
Great stories rewire your brain, and in these tales you can feel your mind shifting as often as Mizue changes trains at the Shinagawa station in “My Slightly Crooked Brooch....” The contemporary short stories in this collection, at times subversive, astonishing and heart-rending, are brimming with originality and genius.
-David Dalton, author of Pop: the Genius of Andy Warhol
https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Geishas-Talking-Frogs-Century/dp/0887277926
https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Digital-Geishas-and-Talking-Frogs-2352405.php
"...Read it you should, if you have an interest in enjoying the means and aesthetic measures
by which broad talents in a small country turn deep and dark."
https://junbungaku.wordpress.com/2015/10/18/review-digital-geishas-and-talking-frogs/
To start off this review, I’m going to make a prediction. It’s a somewhat bold one, and it has some qualifiers, but I would bet a small amount of money on it, since I really do believe that this will be true: Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs is going to be an important book for the next decade or so...
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/834530
"Now Mitsios returns with a second collection: cause for celebration, immediate ordering, immersion in these thirteen worlds of story..."
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