March 2010
11 posts
“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual...”
– Anna Quindlen, Reading Has a Strong Future, in Newsweek. (via thebronzemedal)
common threads in murakami novels.
cats
sexual dream sequences
classical music
dissociative and enigmatic female love interests
this week i finished norwegian wood in anticipation of the film version. this slides into my third place favorite of murakami’s, behind kafka on the shore and the wind-up bird chronicle.
359 minutes with lorin stein →
meet the new editor of the paris review.
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the ten best young adult books for grownups →
a piece i wrote for flavorwire. hint: twilight is not on this list.
“Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly...”
– Junot Diaz
this week in fiction: questions for junot diaz →
new fiction from junot diaz in this week’s issue of the new yorker.
Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood to score film of... →
Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood will reportedly return to film scoring, writing music for an adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood. The score will be based on a composition Greenwood wrote for the BBC Concert Orchestra—Sean Michaels.
“i think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has...”
– kurt vonnegut, the paris review interviews, I. 