This author of Almost Transparent Blue and Coin Locker Babies wrote about a fat serial killer Frank who's guided on a sex tour in the novel In the Miso Soup.
One novel by this author ends with the newspaper headline "Wild Superchickens! Ten Meters in a Single Bound!" - the main character had put chickens on stage to imitate the Velvet Underground for his concert at the Morning Erection Festival. In another novel, a pet crocodile Gulliver enjoys the David Bowie song "Uranus" and lives in the apartment of a model named Anemone, who searches for the military toxin DATURA with her boyfriend, a genocidal pole vaulter. Yet another book has a man standing over a sleeping infant with an ice pick, trying to resist the urge to stab the baby. This author of Almost Transparent Blue and Coin Locker Babies wrote about a fat serial killer Frank who's guided on a sex tour in the novel In the Miso Soup. FTP, name this Japanese writer who, despite his name, is not related to the author of Sputnik Sweetheart.
One novel by this author ends with the newspaper headline "Wild Superchickens!
{Ryu Murakami} (prompt {Murakami}, of course)