Marvin Brought to Book

[Mulboyne]

Marvin may be a bit shy about blowing his own trumpet here so lets blow it for him


Japan Times: In Japan's tabloid world, truth trumps pulp fiction

[T]ranslators Geoff Botting, Mark Schreiber, Michael Hoffman and Marvin Feltcher present...irresistible reports from the front lines of the bizarre...For the serious watcher of contemporary Japan, they are required reading. For the rest of us, they're better than a sake-soaked night in Kabukicho.

MDN: "Tabloid Tokyo" tickles and tittilates - Reviewed by Marvin Feltcher

"Tabloid Tokyo" is a collection of stories gathered from the MDN's daily update of WaiWai, Japan's most popular English language column, and the Tokyo Confidential section that runs on Sundays in the Japan Times. "Tabloid Tokyo" will be available at Amazon.com from October and is currently on sale at Amazon.co.jp (Japanese site).

[Marvin Feltcher]

Sorry!

[Taro Toporific]

I.... Marvin's second anthology of aggravatingly alliterative stories about bawdy babes...at times strain one's credulity, but....never has a book with redeeming social value been so much fun ...

Does it cum with pictures?

[Marvin Feltcher]

Sorry!

[Taro Toporific]

Nothing is not fit to print in Tokyo's tabloids
www.stuff.co.nz /12 July 2005
As scandal sheets go, Tokyo's tabloids can mix it with the best when it comes to lurid detail or mind-popping absurdity....
....When four journalists set about translating the Tokyo tabloid press and publishing it in English, they knew there would be some eye-popping moments.
"It is a view of Japan not normally seen in the West," said Marvin Feltcher, an Australian who works for the newspaper Mainichi Daily News and is one of the co-authors of the newly released book Tabloid Tokyo: 101 tales of sex, crime and the bizarre from Japan's wild weeklies.
As news sheets, the weekly magazines are an antidote to Japan's establishment newspapers which stick with reporting mainly the top end of town. Their view, readers quickly realise, is a "correct" interpretation of Japan. The trouble is that sometimes they leave out the most interesting things because of cosy arrangements in which only reporters who belong to certain clubs can attend press conferences, ask questions or receive information.
The journalists who work for the tabloid weeklies are barred from the clubs and so ferret around for their facts without fear that they will upset a source or be drummed out of a club.....more...