Murakami’s Novelist as Vocation will disappoint anyone who romanticizes the writing life.
Writing is dreary work, Murakami confesses. The work novelists do is tedious, like building a miniature ship in a bottle.
They are basically doing the same thing over and over: transposing some personal theme into different contexts.
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Epiphanies
Art, Technology
August 3, 2025
July 6, 2025
Unable to travel anywhere without reading material, I, in emergency mode,
visited the Beatnick-revered City Lights book store in San Francisco. I picked out a novel by Simon de Beauvoir, then went to
celebrate with a plate of Mandarin Chicken around the corner.
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March 5, 2025
Almost 50 years on, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason rescued Pink Floyd's instrumental "Atom Heart Mother" from the overproduced mess it was on the
1971 Pink Floyd album of the same name. Give the drummer some. Also: Lil Nas X's new single, Sly, and other music I listened to last week.
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