Christopher O'Riley Just finished reading Haruki Murakami‘s masterpiece, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, a book I’d initially not warmed to (I bet I know why, now: back in my David Foster Wallace-immersive days, Murakami’s name came up with the same reverence and regularity. That it didn’t read like DFW to me was, i guess, anathema to me at …
Just finished reading this iconic coming-of-age novel by Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood. a beautiful story about the striving for intimacy and knowledge in the face of distance, dissolution and delusion. a must read, like i’m getting to know all Murakami’s works to be. going to start The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle now. I’d tried it years …
the idea to do this great Beach House song came to me suddenly. had a first draft in a day, performed it first a week later. recorded a take of it for your enjoyment on the day of our From the Top live taping at Corbett Auditorium in Cincinnati, OH on 2014.04.02
Just finished reading one of the Perfect Books ever: Haruki Murakami‘s Kafka on the Shore. the perfect prose incarnation of the Border of the World: the cusp of fate and experience, of the timeless universality of musical creativity, of the resonance of our dreams through the archive of Time, or the boundaries and extremities of …
Just finished reading this volume of Philip K. Dick short stories from the 50s. Gollancz publishes the complete stories in five beautiful volumes, chronologically. i was pretty astonished at how matur these early stories are from the 20th Century’s greatest metaphysical writer. hadn’t read but one of them (A Small Town) before, and this volume …
just finished reading Kris Saknussemm‘s brilliant absurdist drama, the horrifying and hilarious play, The Humble Assessment. Kris was kind enough to invite me to compose music for his latest novel, Reverend America. No one had previously asked me to write anything original for a book before, but Kris is so musically astute in a variety …