“Haruki Murakami (interview)” at BOMB Magazine, 1994. “When I Run I Am in a Peaceful Place: Interview with Haruki Murakami” at Spiegel, 2008. “Speaking as an Unrealistic Dreamer” (translated by Emanuel Pastreich) at The Asia-Pacific Journal, 2011. “A Walk to Kobe” (translated by Philip Gabriel) at Granta, 2013. “TV People” (translated by Alfred Birnbaum) in The Elephant Vanishes. “Introduction” in The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, ed. “Haruki Murakami: The Moment I Became a Novelist” (translated by Ted Goossen) at LitHub, 2015. “Abandoning a Cat” (translated by Philip Gabriel) in The New Yorker, 2019. Plus, Allegations Resurgence in J-Pop” at Deep Dive: Looking Beneath the Surface of Japan (podcast episode transcript), 2023. “Haruki Murakami” (Interview) at Bombsite, 1994. “The Harukists, Disappointed” in The New Yorker, 2012. Who We’re Reading When We’re Reading Murakami. “Fighting for Modern Japan: The University Protests of 1968-69” at Tokyo Weekender, 2023. Rachael Hutchinson and Leith Morton, 2016. “Introduction” in Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature, ed. A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, 4th ed. “Killing Commendatore or, What the Hell Is a Double Metaphor” at, 2020. “Realist Magic and the Invented Tokyos of Murakami Haruki and Yoshimoto Banana” in Journal of Narrative Theory, 2009.įincher, Alison. “Who You’re Reading When You Read Haruki Murakami” in The Atlantic, 2020. (free, article limit)īuchanan, Rowan Hisayo. “Becoming Japanese” in The New Yorker, 1996. Discusses Murakami’s role in Japanese SF.īuruma, Ian. Episode 24: SF! Japanese Science Fiction.Discusses Mieko Kawakami’s friendship with Murakami. Episode 21: Sexlessness in Japanese Fiction.Murakami is also sometimes compared to Abe because both authors’ styles pull from so many non-Japanese sources. Briefly discusses Oe’s dislike of Murakami and Banana Yoshimoto, as well as Murakami’s failure to win Japan’s most coveted literary award. Episode 20: Kobo Abe and the Akutagawa Prize.Covers Murakami’s use of magical realism in his writing. Episode 18: Cats in Japanese Literature.Japanese Literature at Goodreads Other RJL Episodes of Interest: RJL looks at Murakami’s Killing Commendatore, 2020. Haruki Murakami and Mieko Kawakami discuss Murakami’s female characters, 2017-translated into English in 2020. Scott Spencer of discusses the not-yet-translated The City and Its Uncertain Walls, 2023. Morales serves as the Murakami expert, and you can find more of his work at. Read Japanese Literature writes about “Aum Anxiety” in contemporary Japanese fiction, with a special focus on the work of Haruki Murakami, 2021.ĭeep Dive Japan Podcast takes up “Haruki Murakami’s New Novel”, 2023. Murakami on “The Moment Became a Novelist”, 2015. Via the Japanese Subculture Research Center, 2022. Kaori Shoji explains why Murakami is still worth reading. Via The Conversation.Ĭharmaine Esmerelda writes about Haruki Murakami’s cover art, including work by John Gall featured on the art for this RJL episode, 2020. Gitte Marianne Hansen on “How to Read Haruki Murakami the Japanese Way”, 2023. Tokyo Weekender’s “List of 7: The Best Haruki Murakami Novels”, 2023. Murakami’s official English-language website. Who We’re Reading When We’re Reading Murakami by David Karashima.The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe (translated by John Bester).The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories (edited by Jay Rubin).No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai (translated by Donald Keene).Note that the version of Breasts and Eggs published in English is dramatically expanded from the version that won the Akutagawa, the version mentioned in this episode.Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami (translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd).Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (translated by Geoffrey Trousselott).The New Yorker’s complete list of Murakami stories available to read on their website. What I Talk about When I Talk about Running.Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the American Psyche.Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa.Featured in The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories.Killing Commendatore ( read more about Killing Commendatore).Hard-Boiled Wonderland at the End of the World.Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.“TV People” (translated by Alfred Birnbaum).We’ll end with what I like best about this much loved (and much hated) author.īecome an RJL supporter for 15 minutes of bonus content. Why so many people have such strong feelings about his writing.In this episode, we’re talking about one of the most important voices in modern Japanese literature, Haruki Murakami. Check out Episode 28 of the Read Literature podcast.
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