Posts Tagged ‘Haruki Murakami’
April 30, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
“This is a record of everything Fitzgerald wrote, and what he did with it, in his own hand.” The University of South Carolina makes F. Scott’s financial ledger available on the Internet. (“Just weeks before the opening of the movie The Great Gatsby,” the AP adds, horribly.)
In news that carries the ring of inevitability, Steven Soderbergh is writing a crime novella on Twitter.
“It’s pretty graphic, and it’s pretty pornographic for seventh-grade boys and girls to be reading,” says one concerned mother, about … Anne Frank’s diary.
Haruki Murakami is set to make his first public appearance in Japan since 1995.
A. A. Milne’s WWI propaganda career comes to light.
TAGS A.A. Milne, Anne Frank, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Haruki Murakami, news, Steven Soderbergh, Twitter
March 6, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
“Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.” Mohsin Hamid’s fitness tips for writers.
The Vida results are in, and they are, as per usual, damning.
“I was bored at work and looking for a distraction.” Maris Kreizman on the birth of Slaughterhouse 90210.
It is World Read Aloud Day, should you have a child handy! (An adult will do too.)
Why it’s needed? #FictionalCharactersIWantToMarry is a thing. (Reuven Malter, not that you asked.)
TAGS Haruki Murakami, Maris Kreizman, Mohsin Hamid, Twitter, Vida
January 14, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
Meet the bookless library, if you dare.
If that fills you with fear, here is a beautiful antique barn filled with books.
A Murakami calendar? There is indeed an app for that.
A tribute to Aaron Swartz.
TAGS Aaron Swartz, books, Haruki Murakami, libraries, news, roundup
August 31, 2012 | by John Jeremiah Sullivan
This week, our Southern editor, John Jeremiah Sullivan, stepped in to address your queries.
Dear Paris Review,
I live in the deep south and was raised in a religious cult.
Still with me?
Okay. I’m attempting to throw off the shackles of my religious upbringing and become an intelligent well-informed adult. My primary source of rebellion thus far has been movies. I would watch a Fellini movie and then feel suddenly superior to my friends and family because they only watched movies in their native tongue (trust me I know how pathetic this is). My main question involves my reading selections. Obviously, I have stumbled upon your publication and am aware of its status as the primary literary periodical in English. Also, I have a brand-new subscription to the New York Review of Books, since it is apparently the intellectual center of the English-speaking universe. I am not in an M.F.A. program or living in Brooklyn working on the Great American Kindle Single, I’m just a working-class guy trying to take part in the conversation that all the smart people are having. This brings me to my question: What books should I read? There are so many books out there worth reading, that I literally don’t know where to start. To give you some background info: I was not raised as a reader and was not taught any literature in the Christian high school that I attended. What kinds of books do I like? My answer to that would be movies. I’m desperate to start some kind of grand reading plan that will educate me about the world but don’t know where to start. The classics? Which ones? Modern stuff? Should I alternate one classic with one recent book? How much should I read fiction? How much should I read nonfiction? I went to college but it was for nursing, so I have never been taught anything about reading by anybody.
I realize this stuff may be outside of your comfort zone, as most of the advice questions seem to be from aspiring writers or college-educated people. Please believe me when I say that I am out of touch with the modern world because of a very specific religious cult. I want to be an educated, well-read, cultured, critically thinking person but need some stuff to read. Before I end this letter, I’ll provide an example of just how out of touch I am: you know how "Ms." is the non-sexist way to refer to a woman, and that "Mrs." is sexist? Yeah, I just found out about that. I’m twenty-five.
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TAGS advice, Borges, Daniel Defoe, Denis Johnson, Edith Wharton, Ezra Pound, Guy Davenport, Haruki Murakami, High Kenner, Isak Dinesen, James Joyce, Joan Didion, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Maximilian Novak, My Antonia, Richard Ellmann, Robert Penn Warren, Stephen Greenblatt, Ulysses S. Grant, Vladimir Nabokov, Willa Cather, William Shakespeare
August 27, 2012 | by Sadie Stein
Perhaps inevitably, Chicken Soup for the Soul is launching a line of seven soups, “led by iconic chicken noodle, made with tender chunks of chicken, egg noodles, and vegetables in a signature broth.”
In their annual Nobel Prize run-up, Ladbrokes favors Haruki Murakami at 7 to 1 odds.
The Shakespeare Insult Generator.
Ian McEwan: “Whenever I see the word beetroot it looks so appealing. The word looks its colour, so I’m going to have that.”
“One of Mr. Rutherford’s clients, who confidently commissioned hundreds of reviews and didn’t even require them to be favorable, subsequently became a best seller.” The business of raves.
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TAGS Chicken Soup for the Soul, Haruki Murakami, Ian McEwan, Nobel Prize, roundup, William Shakespeare
July 24, 2012 | by Sadie Stein
Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto, Ipanema
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TAGS Haruki Murakami, Joyce Carol Oates, Katherine Mansfield, Maira Kalman, music, Neil Gaiman, news, On the Shelf, roundup, Running, Scientology, the girl from ipanema
