Just finished reading an early collection of Haruki Murakami short stories, The Elephant Vanishes. The volume begins with the story that would eventually become the opening chapter of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (worth rereading, certainly) and a bouquet of his most riveting miniatures. My favourites included the darkly exuberant Sleep, The Dancing Dwarf, Slow Boat …
Every book in my Haruki Murakami binge instantly becomes my new favorite. and so it is with the dream/fantasy/mystery/philosophy of Dance, Dance, Dance. the writing is so beautiful, the obvious love of food, music, sex, life, death/depth palpable, the insight and empathy unequaled in our time, and no one writes a climax to a book …
Just finished reading, as part of my full-fledged Haruki Murakami binge, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World, a Through the Looking-Glass for the modern day, with cyberpunk leanings far more poetic and humane than anything in similar spirit by William Gibson. worlds of mind, memory and of course, music. magical. i know at …
Just finished reading the latest and greatest from Stephen Graham Jones, his lately-published Not For Nothing, as perfect a piece of West Texas noir as we will ever witness in our lifetimes, or until SGJ decides to remake this genre in his own image again. i hope it’s soon. SGJ owns more styles than most …
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 …