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[[Category:Authors|Pronko, Michael]]

What pushed me out of the comfy confines of Kansas City where I grew up, I’m still not sure. I left at first to study philosophy at Brown University and from there, the world just kept opening wider and inviting me onward. After college, I couldn’t see myself going to graduate school or getting a job, so I took off to travel around the world for two years.

The essays in ''Beauty and Chaos'' and the second collection, ''Tokyo’s Mystery Deepens'', were culled from my regular column in Newsweek Japan and first published in collections in Japanese. They are now available in English. Two more volumes of essays on Tokyo, along with the mystery novels, await publication in 2015 and early 2016.