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Kou Machida is a punk singer, actor, and author, who turned to poetry and fiction after releasing one of the seminal Japanese punk albums with his band INU, 1981's Meshi kuuna! (Fuck Eating!). He has won the Akutagawa and Tanizaki prizes among many others, and his 2005 novel Kokuhaku (Confession) was named one of the three best books of the last thirty years by the Asahi Newspaper. Daniel Joseph is a translator, editor, and musician who spent his salad days shouting in dank basements before getting a master's degree in medieval Japanese literature. Recent translation projects include contributions to Terminal Boredom (2021), a collection of stories by science fiction pioneer Izumi Suzuki; and the memoir Try Saying You're Alive! (Blank Forms, 2021) by outsider folk maniac Kazuki Tomokawa.
""Rip It Up is an artistic achievement, both as a novel and as a work of translation."" —Asian Review of Books ""Rip It Up opens the door to a more avant-garde, experimental kind of literature that is an important part of the literary landscape."" —Japan Times
