- Writer at Rest
2009 Getty Fellow Joshua Samuel Brown knows The Road well. His life of professional motion began as a NYC bicycle courier, continuing through several incarnations. In 1994 he moved to Taiwan to teach English, study Mandarin and write. He spent 1998 and 1999 as a roving sweatshop inspector in Southern China then as a journalist for Beijing Scene Newspaper. Retiring briefly from motion, Joshua returned to America an penned political columns and articles for several publications in Colorado. Returning to Asia in 2001, he spent the next several years writing about art, culture, politics and travel for an eclectic variety of publications around the globe, publishing his first book Vignettes of Taiwan (Things Asian Press) in 2005. Since then he’s expanded his circle to include Singapore and Central America, authoring or co-authoring nine travel guides (and a few dozen articles) for Lonely Planet.
In 2009, while en-route from Asia to Los Angeles to take part in that year’s Getty Fellowship, Joshua found himself temporarily at rest during a Buddhist retreat in Sri Lanka, where lengthy meditation and observation of monks provided comedic inspiration for his first screenplay (currently in progress). Snarky Tofu (http://josambro.blogspot.com/) is the ongoing journal of a life spent in semi-perpetual motion.
What some people say…
“JSB manages to survive life off the beaten track in Asia with his wonderful secret weapon: a nuclear-weapons-grade sense of humor.”~ Nury Vittachi
“The Rudyard Kipling of professional boxing…the Lance Armstrong of economic planning.”
~ Lago Von Slack, ESQ.
“A Classic Narcissist”
Richard Deming
