Literary roster as mirror: the Tokyo International Literature Festival
This spring, Tokyo reminds us all of their status as one of the world’s cultural capitals with an impressive new International Literature Festival. The festival is slated to run March… Read more »
Haruki Murakami is the odds-on favorite to win the Nobel Prize
This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature will be given out this week, so it’s time to get your bets in! GalleyCat reports that Haruki Murakami is the favorite to win the… Read more »
Japanese books pulled out of Chinese bookstores
Major bookstores in Beijing have stopped selling books by Japanese authors, including Haruki Murakami’s newest tome 1Q84… Read more »
Literary epiphanies while running
After our first long training run this weekend in preparation for the New York City Marathon, the leader of my running group called everyone together to make a few announcements.… 2 / Read more »