Top 100 books of last 25 years Jul 1, 2008
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (1997). Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer (1997). (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The week's TV highlights Jun 21, 2008
Imagine: A Wild Sheep Chase - In Search of Haruki Murakami. Jazz, jogging, genius. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Friends for faraway places Jun 14, 2008
Tokyo, where the neon is brightest and airfares are cheapest, is home to Haruki Murakami and many of his withdrawn protagonists: A Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Norwegian Wood and a rich collection of stories, The Elephant Vanishes (all Vintage), are perhaps his finest hours so far. Taichi Yamada's Strangers (Faber) is a twisting ghost story set in any of the city's endlessly repeated high-rise "mansions". (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Haruki Murakami Jun 7, 2008
Pain is inevitable, suffering optional. Which is how he found himself tackling his 24th marathon. (Guardian Unlimited)
Quincy Jones getting honorary degree from Princeton Jun 4, 2008
The others are political theorist George Kateb, molecular geneticist Mary-Claire King, writer Haruki Murakami and John Waterbury, the president of the American University of Beruit. The university was awarding degrees to 1,125 undergraduates and 743 graduate students. (NJ.com -- Sports)
Essential reading May 27, 2008
It is true that foreign fiction does sell in some independent shops - Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath, which this month won Independent Bookshop of the Year, sells more Haruki Murakami than Graham Greene. "The monstrosity," says Christopher MacLehose, who ran Harvill, Britain's pre-eminent publisher of translated fiction, for 21 years, "is to compare [this to] what is available in translation in every other European country, with the possible exception of the Faro Islands. You go on... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
TRUE TALES OF WONDER May 25, 2008
Sunday, May 25, 2008 Last Update: 07:05 AM EDT. 10 WAYS TO LEARN ABOUT CANNIBALS, WAITERS, ETC.. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Bestsellers list May 22, 2008
After Dark Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $13. 95, 9780307278739 Three compelling stories over the course of a single night in Tokyo. (Scranton Times, PA)
The political is personal for Havana-born Garcia May 9, 2008
Haruki Murakami makes his Carver obsession explicit with "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running," a memoir about one of his other obsessions, distance running. Portland favorite Barbara Ehrenreich has collected some columns and essays into "This Land Is Their Land" and will be at Powell's on July 16. (OregonLive, OR -- Living)
Self-published author takes competition to bestseller rivals May 8, 2008
Last year's winner was Miranda July for her collection No One Belongs Here More Than You, while in 2006 Haruki Murakami shared the award with Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel. The inaugural award, in 2005, went to Chinese author Yiyun Li. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Kalima Unveils Three New Titles at London Book Fair Apr 10, 2008
"It is great that publishers are now recognising the opportunities in the Arab world. Organisations like Kalima can help the international publishing industry access this largely untapped market of 300 million Arabic speakers." At its official launch last November, Kalima announced a list of the first 100 candidate titles to be translated and published in Arabic, with the following titles now completed: - Il Segno (The Sign), Umberto Eco - The Halo Effect, Phil Rosenzweig - The Future of Human... (PR Newswire)
Mister Pip wins Kiriyama Apr 2, 2008
With this award, Jones joins previous Kiriyama winners Michael Ondaatje, Haruki Murakami and Suketu Mehta. guardian. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
The Synesthesiac Mar 7, 2008
I can't get away from Haruki Murakami. So much so that when I recently went to check out another one of his books, I didn't even have to look up the call number - I already knew exactly where I would find his shelf in the library. (Middlebury College -- The Campus, VT)
Malibu's Top 10 Books (7) Feb 24, 2008
"Top 10 Nonfiction1. "The 9/11 Commission Report," by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, W. W. Norton, 10, paper. 2. "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim," by David Sedaris, Little, Brown ny, 24.95, cloth.3. "1,000 Places to See Before You Die," by Patricia Schultz, Workman Publishing, 18.95, paper.4. "Inside the Kingdom," by Carmen bin Laden, Warner Books, Inc., 23.95, cloth.5. "Dude, Where's My Country," by Michael Moore, Warner Books, Inc., 14.95, paper.6. "Thieves in High... (Malibu Times, CA)
Ellen Page stays calm amid 'Juno' whirlwind Jan 10, 2008
"I just finished a book, so I'm in between. I just grabbed After Dark by Haruki Murakami. I've been on a huge non-fiction kick. The last six books I've read have been non-fiction. I just finished one on Canadian mining in Latin America, so it was time to just read a book.". Her director is impressed that "she's exceedingly well-read and articulate," but not surprised: "Hey, she grew up in Canada," points out Reitman, a fellow Canadian. (USA Today)
* [BOOK REVIEW] 'After Dark's' strangers in the night exchange more than glances Jan 6, 2008
Haruki Murakami's latest work takes place over a single night in Tokyo and is distinctly poignant and sad while also being brief and inconclusive ... Haruki Murakami is by now a famous writer. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
The best new journals Dec 31, 2007
Contributors include Denis Johnson, Joyce Carol Oates, TC Boyle, Roddy Doyle, Zadie Smith, Haruki Murakami, Philip Glass, Stephen King and Nick Hornby ... Contributors include Haruki Murakami, David Mitchell, William T Vollmann, Charles d'Ambrosio, Jonathan Lethem, Billy Collins. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Robert Hurwitt's theater picks Dec 30, 2007
"After the Quake": Director Frank Galati's Steppenwolf Theatre import seamlessly interwove two stories by Haruki Murakami to humorously beguiling effect, as a shy writer tells tales to his beloved's daughter while writing his own funny story of a giant frog who saves Tokyo. With a first-rate cast effortlessly shifting between human and animal roles, the play had a hidden emotional epicenter that continued to send out evocative tremors long after the show's end. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Welsh on theater Dec 24, 2007
after the quake adapted by Frank Galati from two stories by Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, directed by Galati at La Jolla Playhouse, July 29. ANNE MARIE WELSH. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Charles McNulty: The best theater in 2007 Dec 15, 2007
This collage of two Haruki Murakami stories, delicately adapted and directed by Frank Galati in a production that originated at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, was quaveringly brought to life by an ensemble that, like its Japanese author, was able to effortlessly slip between conscious and unconscious realms. ADVERTISEMENT. (Los Angeles Times)
Arab world opens door to Western classics Dec 10, 2007
They are Umberto Eco's The Sign, a history of semiotics; The Halo Effect and the Eight Other Business Delusions that Deceive Managers by Philip Rosenzweig; The Future of Human Nature, an examination of genetic engineering by the noted neo-Marxist philosopher and sociologist Jurgen Habermas; Stephen Hawking's A Briefer History of Time;, Kafka on the Shore, a novel by Haruki Murakami; and Charlemagne, Muhammad and the Arab Roots of Capitalism by Gene W. Heck. So far four publishers, most based in... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Translation project to bring cream of foreign writers to Arabs Nov 22, 2007
Books by Stephen Hawking, Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami and other star writers past and present have been chosen as the first works to be translated into Arabic, in a major initiative to widen access to foreign literature ... Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - a novel about the parallel journeys of a teenage boy and an elderly simpleton. (Guardian Unlimited)
Best Mystery Books for Christmas Nov 17, 2007
Ideas for Christmas Gifts for Lovers of Crime, Mystery and Spies. Books make great Christmas presents. (Suite101.com)
French poet Bonnefoy receives Czech literary prize Oct 31, 2007
The Japanese author Haruki Murakami received the award last year. Guardian Unlimited. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
The Culture: Mary Zimmerman, Frank Galati Oct 18, 2007
Galati's adaptation of two Haruki Murakami stories, in a show titled "After the Quake," opens tonight at the Rep's Thrust Stage and runs through Nov. 25. Zimmerman's "Argonautika," a stage version of the Jason and the Argonauts myth, plays Nov. 2-Dec. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Fear frames 'After the Quake' but doesn't rattle young actresses Oct 17, 2007
Based on two short stories by the acclaimed Japanese author Haruki Murakami (and opening here, by eerie coincidence, on the anniversary of the Loma Prieta quake), its subject is nothing less than terror. In Murakami's stories the source of terror is the 1995 Kobe earthquake, which gives a little girl, Sala, nightmares. (San Francisco Chronicle)
US novelist tipped to win Nobel Literature Prize announcement Oct 11, 2007
Roth tops the list of possible winners at online betting site Ladbrokes, followed by Haruki Murakami of Japan and Israeli author Amos Oz. The site last year had Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, who ended up taking home the honour, on top. Sweden's biggest daily Dagens Nyheter suggested that the Franz Kafka literary prize could be an indicator of a future Nobel prize, noting that both Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek and British playwright Harold Pinter went on to win the Nobel after winning the Kafka... (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Steven Winn: On the waves Sputnik I continues to make 50 years later Oct 4, 2007
In No Child Left Behind and the politics of scientific research grants, "Battlestar Galactica" and the fiction of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami ("Sputnik Sweetheart"), that first satellite keeps revolving through the spacious realms of contemporary life. Yet another space exploration history, "In the Shadow of the Moon," is in theaters now. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Before The Fall Aug 26, 2007
Yet another popular novelist, Haruki Murakami, gets theatricalized in "After the Quake" at Berkeley Rep, which goes on to offer the West Coast premiere of Mary Zimmerman's "Argonautika" in November. A new Cirque du Soleil show, "Kooza," sets up camp here in November. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Berkeley Rep Turns 40 Aug 19, 2007
-- after the quake, by Haruki Murakami, adapted and directed by Frank Galati; begins previews Oct. 12, runs Oct. 17-Nov. 25, Thrust Stage. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Regional theaters take on old, new stories Aug 16, 2007
For after the quake, Frank Galati's adaptation of two short stories by Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, which premiered at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, La Jolla is joining forces with Berkeley Repertory Theatre. The play, running at the Mandell Weiss Forum through Aug. 26, "deals with how our lives are changed by national tragedy," says La Jolla associate artistic director Shirley Fishman. (USA Today -- Life)
Japan's Prodigal Novelist Returns Aug 16, 2007
Japanese writer Haruki Murakami attends the 2006 Franz Kafka Award Ceremony in the Old Town Hall on October 30, 2006 in Prague, Czech Republic ... Haruki Murakami doesn't much go in for metaphors, but even he wouldn't deny the aptness and symbolism of the moment when he decided he would write his first novel. (Time.com)
Fukuoka yakuza employed 13-year-olds as hostesses Aug 7, 2007
A Hyogo library congratulated contemporary writer Haruki Murakami for being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature - only, he hadn t won it. Sanrio Co. have announced that they will cushion an exclusive dog house with a Hello Kitty-formed cushion. (News on Japan, Japan)
Review: Magnitude of 'after the quake' Aug 1, 2007
This strange, sometimes flat, more often engaging conflation of two short stories by Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami possesses a range of tone and reference belied by its simplicity ... Adapted by Frank Galati from two stories by Haruki Murakami. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Read on... Jul 18, 2007
Book I'm reading:"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami. Total number of books I own:Not nearly enough. (Variety)
Summer solace: hot tips for every kind of reader Jul 8, 2007
Haruki Murakami After Dark (Harvill Secker 14. 99). (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Easy, readers Jun 11, 2007
Fans of the Japanese magical realist Haruki Murakami ("Kafka on the Shore," "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman") will be happy to have his 12th work of fiction , "After Dark," a dreamlike set of interconnected stories taking place over one long Tokyo night. No less celebrated in the international realm is the reputation of Roberto Bolano , the Chilean writer whose death in 2003 sparked a posthumous attention to his work (he is being compared these days with W. G. Sebald and Jos Saramago). (Boston Globe)
'After Dark' is a gripping dream Jun 4, 2007
Haruki Murakami writes with precision and demonstrates compassion for his small cast of characters ... After DarkBy Haruki MurakamiKnopf, 191 pp ... Considering that no observable action beyond walking and talking and eating tuna sandwiches transpires in Haruki Murakami's "After Dark," it is a remarkably gripping book. (Boston Globe -- Living)
`Less Than Zero' Tops BOJ's Summer Reading List May 28, 2007
Author Haruki Murakami has long had a flare for the surreal. These days, one could be excused for wondering if Franz Kafka is roaming the halls of Japan's Finance Ministry. (Bloomberg -- Columnists)
A predatory mind game May 26, 2007
" Influenced by Paul Auster's book City of Glass, the work of Haruki Murakami and the movies The Matrix and Jaws, Hall has a sentimental attachment as well to Casablanca which he references often in The Raw Shark Texts. "I think it's possibly one of the greatest romantic films of all time. It's a great love and loss story and nobody dies. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A sleepless night in Tokyo with Murakami May 14, 2007
By Haruki Murakami; translated by Jay Rubin ... Haruki Murakami's novels, in particular, never failed to make me long for the edgy coolness of Japanese culture. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Author gets a bite of the big time May 9, 2007
But very early on, the reader gets indications that it's several other things as well, including pop culture compendium, epistolary novel, homage to Paul Auster and Haruki Murakami, and big rollicking word game. Nearly everything in the book is either an allusion, an anagram, a number puzzle or a tweaking of Zen and string theory. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Smaller publishers loom large in short fiction prize May 1, 2007
Last year's winner was Haruki Murakami for Blind Woman, Sleeping Willow. No space was found on this year's longlist for writers from Asia or South America. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
- New Column: Richard Rayner's Paperback Writers Apr 29, 2007
For Penguin, one solution was to develop Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions, a new line of reissues that includes Jack Kerouac's "The Dharma Bums," Shirley Jackson's "We Have Always Lived in the Castle," and Hans Christian Andersen's "Fairy Tales." Printed on uncoated paper with ragged edges, and featuring introductions by writers like Haruki Murakami, Doris Lessing, Jonathan Lethem, Luc Sante and Eric Schlosser, these are classics the way they ought to be. Perhaps most striking are the books'... (Los Angeles Times)
Justice as comedy Apr 24, 2007
I mean, in real life, such as we know it, I couldn't - I don't have anything approaching that kind of power, or any other power that I'm cognizant of - but let's pretend we're in the land of metaphor or magical realism (hello, Haruki Murakami), which is more or less the land of make-believe. Comic-book America - pretty much where the Bush administration has been residing for the last six years or so - whether Stealth President Cheney knows it or not. (Daily Iowan, IA)
Impac awards announce all-male shortlist Apr 10, 2007
Other big names to miss out include Kazuo Ishiguro, John Banville, Ian McEwan and Haruki Murakami. However, JM Coetzee, the South African Nobel winner and twice Booker-winner did make it through to the final round with Slow Man. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Berkeley Rep turns 40 next season with Zimmerman, Hoch in lineup Apr 5, 2007
So will Mary Zimmerman, Will Eno, Frank Galati, Haruki Murakami and George Bernard Shaw ... " Berkeley Repertory Theatre's 2007-08 season Main season Heartbreak House: By George Bernard Shaw. Directed by Les Waters. Previews begin Aug. 31; runs Sept. 5-Oct. 14. Roda Theatre. After the Quake: By Haruki Murakami. Adapted and directed by Frank Galati. Previews begin Oct 12; runs Oct. 17-Nov. 25. Thrust Stage. Argonautika: Conceived and directed by Mary Zimmerman. Previews begin Nov. 2; runs Nov.... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Japan's Haruki Murakami among winners of 11th annual Kiriyama Prize Mar 27, 2007
NEW YORK: Haruki Murakami's "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman," a sometimes surreal collection of short stories, and Greg Mortenson's and David Oliver Relin's "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time," are this year's winners of the 11th annual Kiriyama Prize. The $30,000 ( 22,477) award, to be divided between the three winners, was announced Tuesday by Pacific Rim Voices, a nonprofit organization "dedicated to celebrating literature that contributes to greater... (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)
What's new in books this spring Mar 5, 2007
And the month of May will feel like Valentine's Day when we encounter "After Dark" by Haruki Murakami (Knopf), "Luncheon at the Boating Party" by Susan Vreeland (Viking), "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins), "Fellow Travelers" by Thomas Mallon (Pantheon) and Khaled Hosseini's follow-up to "The Kite Runner," "A Thousand Splendid Suns" (Riverhead). As we look forward to these friends, other forthcoming books will take us back -- 400 years to be exact, when the... (Fresno Bee)
Kiran shortlisted for Kiriyama Mar 3, 2007
Chinese dissident author Ma Jian, Japanese icon Haruki Murakami, Canadian author Madeleine Thien and Japanese American poet and novelist Lois-Ann Yamanaka from Hawai are also up for the Kiriyama Prize for fiction, due to be announced on March 27 ... For example, in fiction our judges chose Haruki Murakami, whose name is synonymous with modern literature from Japan; Ma Jian, whose stories about his homeland of China are so powerful they were banned in that country; and Lois-Ann Yamanaka, whose... (Daily News & Analysis)
Kiran Desai's bestseller among finalists for Kiriyama prize Mar 1, 2007
Competing with Desai for the fiction prize are Haruki Murakami for 'Blind Willow, Sleeping woman', Ma Jian 'Stick Out Your Tongue', Madeleine Thien for 'Celebrity' and Lois-Ann Yamanaka for 'Behold the Man ... World-class author and Japanese icon Haruki Murakami dishes out 24 surreal, complex, and often very funny short stories in his collection Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. (Hindu)
This year's best books Jan 5, 2007
Strange nocturnal events occur in After Dark by Haruki Murakami (Random, June). Toni Morrison tells a brief history of American racism in Mercy (Random, October). (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
