Articles by Ben Dooley
October 29, 2009
Just in time for Halloween… 2
Martin Scorsese presents his picks for the eleven (?) scariest movies of all time. Apparently he stopped watching horror films around the time he directed Mean Streets…
October 6, 2009
Murakami to Release Third Volume of 1Q84 0
As predicted, Haruki Murakami is hard at work on volume three of 1Q84. The Japan Times reports that the finale (?) of Murakami’s latest novel is slated to come out in Japanese next summer. Still no word on when we’ll see it in English.
September 30, 2009
Seeing Red at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2
Standing in the US, where NEA studies claim that just over half of the population has pretty much stopped reading entirely, the Chinese government’s concern over the printed word seems slightly anachronistic.
September 7, 2009
Ask Murakami 1
Can’t get enough Murakami? In the lead-up to the announcement of this year’s Nobel Prize for literature, Dan over at “How to Japonese” will post a short, new Murakami translation each week. The translations come from an unpublished (in English) collection of Murakami’s answers to his readers’ questions. This week, Murakami tackles safe sex.
September 4, 2009
Ask a Book Question: #75 (Murakami and Books to Read in Japan) 9
Murakami’s obsession with the West, rather than honing his eye for dissecting his own culture, has led him to cut it out of his stories almost entirely.
June 1, 2009
1Q84 Revealed 5
Haruki Murakami’s new novel 1Q84 has come out swinging. With an initial, combined print run of 680,000 copies, publisher Shinchosha believes the two volume book is on track to sell a million and “become a social phenomenon.” Released two days early (May 27th) in Tokyo and the Kansai region, the book has already sold over [...]
