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Thanks to the painstaking and penetrating procedure of Drew McManus, and the thorough and intuitive platform interactivity by Venture Industries, christopheroriley.com has a whole new face, as well as ongoing instant maintenance on all aspects of the site. Even I have a much more hands-on access to everything, from calendar to content to concept. To…
Haruki Murakami ~ What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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…
Haruki Murakami ~ Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
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 ~ The Trilogy of the Rat
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,…
Haruki Murakami ~ A Wild Sheep Chase
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…
Kris Saknussemm ~ The Humble Assessment
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…
10th Annual From the Top Gala @ MIT Media Lab
The closing event of my Spring season was the 10th Annual From the Top Gala, held this year at the spectacular MIT Media Lab. Caitlin Cunningham took these and lots of other great pics of my treasured FTT crew.
Bohumil Hrabal ~ Harlequin’s Millions
Just finished reading the latest available English translation of one of Bohumil Hrabal‘s works, Harlequin’s Millions lovingly done by Stacey Knecht in a comfortable paperback edition by Archipelago Books. It’s written in his inimitable style, a sort of laterally exponential stream of anecdote, internally narrated and recalled by a housewife and former actress now living…
Haruki Murakami ~ 1Q84
Just finished reading Haruki Murakami‘s Magnum Opus, 1Q84, an 1100+ page-turner, if there ever was one. an epicurean thriller, a lesson in the primal, essential power of story and legend, alternate reality of the most exalted, Romantic type, an iconic love story, and as always in Murakami’s work, the connection between us all. I’ve now…
the From the Top Gala group shot accompanied by Cyril Scott’s At Dawn
Tonight was the 10th Annual From the Top Gala, held this year at the incredible MIT Media Lab. First opportunity to take a complete staff photograph. What a great-looking bunch, the hardest-working and most congenial group I’ve been honoured to work with now these 15 years. Your soundtrack for perusing this panoramic sea of smiles…