Josh is a Junior majoring in Computer Science at Lewis University and hopes to earn a technical writing certificate. During the school year, he works as a mentor at the Writing Center. He has been playing guitar for nearly 13 years and plays in his university’s rock band. In his free time, he enjoys playing video games, reading manga, watching anime, and listening to and playing music.
Who are you and what is your role in the Jet Fuel Review?
My name is Josh Brown. I’m a prose editor and assistant web master for the Jet Fuel Review.
What book might we find on your nightstand right now?
Tokyo Ghoul re: volume 3
Describe your perfect reading atmosphere.
My perfect atmosphere for reading would be lying on the couch during a rainy day.
What might your personal library look like?
Lots of manga…
If you could “re-make” a poorly written movie that was based on a book, what movie would it be?
Death Note: There is a laughably bad live action adaptation of the book.
What piece of literature can you reread over and over again?
The entire Hunger Games series (including the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes).
Give us a quote from your favorite (or any) book/movie.
From Joker: “What do you get, when you cross a mentally ill loner with a society who abandons him and treats him like trash?! I’ll tell you what you get!”
If you were invited to have coffee with any fictional character, who would you most like to meet? Why?
Goro Akechi from Persona 5. Being the intellectual rival to the protagonist throughout the game, I want to understand his thought processes and motives.
Share your top five favorite pieces of writing (anything included, be it movies, books, etc.).
In no particular order:
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Fire Force / Soul Eater by Atsushi Ohkubo
- Fullmetal Alchemist Hiromu Arakawa
- Joker by Todd Phillips
- Persona 5 by Katsura Hashino