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Just finished reading Haruki Murakami‘s collection of essays on his marathon and triathalon training and not incidentally, his writing method and discipline, his raison d’etre, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. True to the inspired and inspiring tone and content, I read most of this in a two-hour StairMaster session. A confessional …
Just finished reading my first volume of Haruki Muramaki‘s non-fiction, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche, essays by the author sandwiched between intensive interviews by the author of victims of the sarin gas attack that took place in the Tokyo subway system early the morning of March 20, 1995, and associates of …
Haruki Murakami‘s A Wild Sheep Chase serves as the culminating 3rd of his Trilogy of the Rat, preceded by Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973. The first two of the trilogy are out of print in English and are dearly priced if you want to get your hands on them. They are both, however, …
I’ve come to the end of my traversal of Haruki Murakami‘s novels at the beginning: his breakthrough novel in English, third of his Trilogy of the Rat, along with Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973, neither of which i’ve yet read, and both available for $250 or more, or as free pdf’s!) A Wild …
I’ve been a big fan of Kris Saknussemm‘s writing for a number of years now, starting with his brilliant novel, Zanesville, and continuing to read all his latest work. We became friends just after the release of his Reverend America, a road novel featuring an albino ex-child evangelist. Kris was the first person to ask …