Margins
2023
First Published
4.26
Average Rating
49
Number of Pages
Dazai's timeless tale of fame, doubt, family and critics. A brand new translation from Maplopo.
Avg Rating
4.26
Number of Ratings
66
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Doc Kane
Doc Kane
Author · 1 books

Doc Kane's versatile writing style has peppered the web and all manner of printed communication materials since 1994. He's a veteran of the music and entertainment industries and a recovering marketer. These days, he prefers to think of himself more as a sales guy and writer, than a marketer, and loves helping others bring more of themselves to their sales and promotion efforts. He's worked in businesses large and small, from Amazon to M&M Mars, to several successful startups and family-owned businesses all around the Midwest and East Coast of the United States. For five years he fired his way through the dental industry, writing hundreds of medical and health articles for the dental software firm, RevenueWell as their marketing communications manager. Doc has also been a film story analyst, and script reader for multiple film festivals in the United States. You may have even seen him on camera in Showtime's "Shameless," "Civil War Deniers," "Professor Mack," and CNBC. Doc was also the archival film and audio researcher for The History Channel's Emmy-nominated, "Vietnam in HD" series. In 2017, Doc retired to Japan to write and research even more, and to share his passion for the English language with the dedicated learners of Kobe, Japan. He is currently completing his first novel, "Rapt in Indigo," a story set in that very city in 1994. Doc leads multiple knowledge-sharing companies from his base in Kansai, including marketingmeatball.com, nihonhustle.com, and vitalityandvigor.com, and is co-founder of the Japanese to English translation firm, Maplopo (maplopo.com), and the English language instructional site, okhuh.com. Both firms he runs with his wife Reiko, and their trusty assistant, Chiro the Siberian Husky.

Osamu Dazai
Osamu Dazai
Author · 38 books

Osamu DAZAI (native name: 太宰治, real name Shūji Tsushima) was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as Shayō (The Setting Sun) and Ningen Shikkaku (No Longer Human), are considered modern-day classics in Japan. With a semi-autobiographical style and transparency into his personal life, Dazai’s stories have intrigued the minds of many readers. His books also bring about awareness to a number of important topics such as human nature, mental illness, social relationships, and postwar Japan.

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