NP but Murakami

[Joe Allonby]

I read this this morning.

Maybe I wouldn't try to shake his hand on the street, but I would
offer to buy him the scotch of his choice in a jazz club.



On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 10/21/2011 6:58 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
> He got at least one plot element wrong and hard to judge the simple
> connective prose without
> reading it in Japanese but I send this because of the words and allusion to
> shadows and
> even electric illumination ala Pynchon//
>
> And he doesn't get a few types of willed ambiguity.
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203388804576617231169928302.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
>
>
>
> There's a long piece in today's Times. Murakami has both Eventyrian and
> Pynchonian characteristics.
>
> "Murakami insists that, when he’s not writing, he is an absolutely ordinary
> man — his creativity, he says, is a “black box” to which he has no conscious
> access. He tends to shy away from the media and is always surprised when a
> reader wants to shake his hand on the street."
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/magazine/the-fierce-imagination-of-haruki-murakami.html?pagewanted=all