what to read before the Read?

[John Bailey]

I just binged Men Without Women here on a short trip to Japan and it's a
terrific collection. Murakami effing sucks at subtext but nails it here,
and the new translator is maybe his best.

On 30 Oct 2017 6:19 pm, "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Richard Hofstadter's America at 1750
> America at 1750: A Social Portrait
> <https://www.amazon.com/America-at-1750-Social-Portrait/dp/0394717953/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1509354563&sr=8-1&keywords=america+at+1750>Jan
> 12, 1973
> by Richard Hofstadter
> <https://www.amazon.com/Richard-Hofstadter/e/B000AP8JTE/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1509354563&sr=8-1>
>
> The US Constitution and Bill of Rights.
>
> Maybe the Federalist Papers.
>
> And all the works of literature TRP buries allusions to in M & D. Such as
> Lolita.
>
>
> And Murakami's *Men Without Women* which has NO RELEVANCE at all
> to M & D but which I throw on here because a separate post suggesting that
> all who like and all who don't like Murakami, as expressed on the Plist,
> will be
> irrelevant so unnecessary, but I just want to 'share'--today's good
> word--that all
> who don't would be missing a new collection of stories as imaginative as
> any being written and that is one of the best of our time.
>
> And place in it. IMHO.
>
> #PerpWalk Monday
>
>
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