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Searching for Haruki Murakami’s Old Jazz Club, and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
February 11, 2014
On the Shelf
Photo: oldworldwisdom, via tumblr
The Iowa Writers’ Workshop:
brought to you by the CIA
. (Also herewith: Frank Conroy’s derisive pronouncements on everyone from Melville to Pynchon. “Of David Foster Wallace he growled, with a wave of his hand, ‘He has his thing that he does.’”)
Haruki Murakami had a jazz club. It closed in 1981. What you’ll find there today: “
A drab three-story cement building
. Outside … a restaurant had set up a
sampuru
display of plastic foods. Above it, an orange banner advertised DINING CAFE.” Jazz!
Tracking the
fluctuating sales of Library of America classics
: “Who would have thought that Ben Stiller’s movie remake of
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
would triple sales of the LOA’s James Thurber edition. Or that the film version of
On the Road
would increase sales of the Kerouac volume that contains the novel by more than thirty percent?”
While we’re on Kerouac: a German college student took all the locations from
On the Road
and plugged them into Google Maps. The resulting driving directions—
On the Road for 17,527 Miles
—are available for free. My personal favorite part is “Take exit 362 to merge onto I-180 N/Interstate 25 Business/US-85 N/US 87 Business toward Central Ave.”
A must for your reference shelf:
every Prince hairstyle from 1978 to 2013
, in one easy-to-read (and purple, of course) chart.
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