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	Harvard Gazette: Murakami is explorer of imagination
		Haruki Murakami may not be a household word in the United States, but his name triggered enough interest, at least in the Cambridge area, to overwhelm the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies when it agreed to co-host a public appearance by the writer.
		Murakami was pleased with the result and asked whether it would be all right to publish Rubin's translation of the story "The Second Bakery Attack" in Playboy.
		Murakami brought the garment with him and made a formal presentation of it to Rubin.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2005/12.01/15-murakami.html (1184 words)

	Murakami's magical mystery tour / Newest collection is as enigmatic and sublime as ever -- much to the joy of addicted ...
		If Murakami were to solve the riddle, he would strip his work of the hypnotizing quality that keeps it at a safe distance from fable and science fiction.
		Murakami's hapless protagonists are not ordinary men thrown into extraordinary situations; they are men who come to realize that no situation is ordinary at all.
		Murakami's Japanese contemporaries have criticized him for being pop-lit, and his debt to American pop culture is, admittedly, large.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/20/RVG45KGLBI1.DTL (799 words)

	CNN.com - Books - Japanese writer Murakami probes soul's 'dark kingdom' - November 24, 2000
		Murakami is pushing that poison to his American readership in unprecedented doses.
		Murakami's books are full of disorienting twists: characters crawl down wells and slip into netherworlds; they come face to face with evil and lose their souls; their personalities split apart.
		Murakami matches the worldliness with a detached, almost anesthetized narrative voice that sounds to the Japanese ear as if it were translated from another language.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/books/news/11/24/arts.japan.murakamis.poison.ap (1396 words)

	The Hindu : Confessions of a Murakami junkie
		To read a Murakami novel is to be immersed into an experience, to journey into a world that is at once familiar and utterly mysterious.
		Murakami's books are certainly weird and it is this "weirdness" factor that gives them their unique quality and makes them so addictive, a bit like watching a soap opera by David Lynch...
		Murakami writes in a deliberately understated style, deadpan and matter-of-fact, shot through with a wry sense of humour, which lulls the reader into a false sense of suburban security — "I was awakened by music.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/lr/2002/12/01/stories/2002120100420500.htm (1437 words)

	World Press Review - Books Japanese Literature - Haruki Murakami
		Murakami sees this as part of a more general retreat into formalism: “After the war and modernization, the Japanese lost their sense of home and were deeply hurt.
		Murakami himself tries to recover the realm of the spirit by other means; he doesn’t look back.
		Murakami takes another view: “Sex is a key to enter a spirit....Sex is like a dream when you are awake; I think dreams are collective.
	www.worldpress.org /0801books1.htm (976 words)

	AsiaMedia :: JAPAN: Murakami arrested over insider trading
		Murakami, operator of MAC Asset Management Pte., now based in Singapore, added that he will step down from his post and retire from the investment business to take responsibility for the incident.
		Murakami said prosecutors told him during voluntary questioning that it was illegal for him to even listen to the Livedoor pair's remarks about their plans to purchase NBS shares.
		Born in the city of Osaka, Murakami was said to have begun his career as an investor at age 9 when his father gave him 1 million yen and he bought shares in a brewery.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article-eastasia.asp?parentid=47220 (1305 words)

	The Honolulu Advertiser - Sports
		Les Murakami doffs his cap while riding in an electric car with wife, Dot, during a ceremony to honor the UH baseball coach.
		On a night when the fans came out to show their appreciation, it was Murakami who made the effort to thank the fans for the 30-plus years of support.
		Tatsuno, whom Murakami called the Pied Piper, said he has not been to many games of late, but was pleased to be back.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2001/May/20/sp/sp01a.html (926 words)

	hackwriters.com - Haruki Murakami Profile - Sam North (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I suspect that Murakami found the Japan hard to live in once he found fame and I know that between 1991 and 1995 he lived and taught in America, shunning publicity.
		Murakami weaves sex into the very earth and he is obsessed by tunnels, silent lovemaking, awakward, tense sex and ultimate longing.
		Murakami’s Norwegian Wood is fantastic, in it’s true sense, an exotic fish in a dark sea.
	www.hackwriters.com /murakami.htm (2100 words)

	Murakami
		Moreover, Murakami's ultimate demise involved events ranging across the entire breadth of the “triangle of conflict.” Herewith is presented (with due apologies to Paul Harvey) “the rest of the story” of Shigenori Murakami.
		Murakami, at least, was not in position to see VMF-223's initial attack on the bombers nor does he record having seen any bombers fall much less the five claimed by VMF-223.
		Murakami dove from a much greater altitude for a frontal attack but his approach didn't go well and the attack was ineffective.
	www.j-aircraft.com /research/rdunn/murakami/murakami.htm (9795 words)

	Public Art Fund: Takashi Murakami: Press Release
		In addition to his work as an artist, Takashi Murakami is a curator, entrepreneur and a student of contemporary Japanese society and its efforts to define itself in a post-war era.
		Murakami is also internationally recognized for his recent collaboration with designer Marc Jacobs to create handbags and other products for the Louis Vuitton fashion house.
		Takashi Murakami was born in Tokyo and received his BFA, MFA and PhD from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.
	www.publicartfund.org /pafweb/projects/murakami_t_release_03.html (882 words)

	Style.com: News & Trends: Focus On...
		Murakami, a goateed Ph.D., sees his work as part of the "poku" movement, a mix of Pop (po) and otaku (ku), the animation- and comic-driven Japanese youth culture.
		Murakami's sweetly twisted multicolor monogram and "eye love" monogram bags for Louis Vuitton require 33 and 93 screens to print, respectively—in contrast to the usual three screens.
		Takashi Murakami is represented by Marianne Boesky in New York and Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris.
	www.style.com /trends/focuson/120702 (367 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Haruki Murakami - Books: Meet the Writers
		Murakami doesn't profess to know where the strangeness of his stories comes from, or even what will happen in them once he starts writing.
		Murakami's most popular novel in Japan is more straightforwardly realistic than his other fiction.
		Feeling that coverage of the Aum Shinrikyo cult's gas attack on the Tokyo subway was skewed too much toward the perpetrators, Murakami painstakingly assembled a chronicle of the 1995 event as told by its survivors, with additional context from the author.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?cid=996939 (325 words)

	Takashi Murakami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Murakami: The difference about art consumption between Japan and New York is that it is a hobby in Japan, while it is an ideology for creating culture in New York.
		Murakami: It was a kind of news flout by telling that it was not serious.
		Murakami: I think there should be a strong dark emotion within an artist in order to continuously create powerful works.
	www.jca-online.com /murakami.html (2980 words)

	Murakami Haruki at the Complete Review
		Murakami writes cool, fluent and addictive meditations on the strangeness of ordinary life, brilliantly evoking the coexistence of the mundane and the dreamlike." -
		There is wild fantasy in Murakami's works, with some taking some decidedly sur- and un-real turns -- but he does it in such an almost blasé manner that the reader willingly accepts it.
		Confessions of a Murakami junkie from The Hindu
	www.complete-review.com /authors/murakamh.htm (1702 words)

	Amazon.ca: Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words: Books: Jay Rubin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		While Murakami wasn't the first Japanese writer to have a boku narrator, Rubin feels that it suits perfectly Murakami's casual, informal voice: "Murakami [used] Boku because he felt the word to be the closest thing Japanese had to the neutral English "I"; less a part of the Japanese social hierarchy, more democratic,...
		Murakami goes out of his way to describe himself as a "normal guy," and the reader learns not only about how Murakami's work habits and his fondness for single malt scotch, but also his ambivalence toward the rock star-level success in Japan after Norwegian Wood that led him to live abroad.
		Murakami fascinates me because he is still growing rapidly as a writer and a person and the growing pains as well as the links to his past work are found in each work if you know what to look for.
	www.amazon.ca /Haruki-Murakami-Music-Words-Rubin/dp/0099455447 (2888 words)

	The Wonderful World of Murakami \| Departures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Before Murakami became the darling of the fashion world, he was a promising young Japanese artist with a doctorate in painting and a vision that seemed, at the time, radical.
		Indeed, says Boesky, one of Murakami's primary interests is serving as a mentor to the next generation of artists; these days he maintains a full-time staff of 45 or so, many of them young artists and artisans.
		The relative scarcity of Murakami's work—as well as the artist's current profile—guarantees that his pieces will be the subject of some fiercely competitive bidding and will fetch well over their high estimate.
	www.departures.com /articles/wonderful-world-of-murakami (1723 words)

	Powell's Books - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
		In addition, a part of Murakami's genius is that he uses images as plot points, going from image to image, like in the marvelous story 'Airplane,' where, while making love, the narrator imagines strings hanging from the ceiling and how each one might open up a different possibility — good and bad.
		It is clear that Murakami is well acquainted with the teachings of Buddhism, western philosophies, Jungian theory; he has a deep knowledge of music and, also, I have been told, is a dedicated, strong swimmer.
		In the introduction to this collection, Murakami writes how, for him, writing a novel is a challenge and how writing short stories is a joy — these stories are a joy for his readers as well.
	www.powells.com /biblio/1400044618 (1179 words)

	Murakami, Impresario - artnet Magazine
		Murakami’s art production company, Kaikai Kiki, flew me over to Tokyo from New York for the weekend, along with a handful of other western art critics, putting us up in a fancy downtown hotel that had the sleek glass and stone design of a corporate skyscraper.
		Murakami came out and welcomed the artists and the crowd, and then the judges were introduced, and then more judges were introduced, all with a certain game-show élan that would seem excessive at Western art events.
		Murakami’s own work seems unabashedly Japanese, a quality he purposely developed, according to a story last year by Arthur Lubow in the Sunday New York Times Magazine, thanks to a new perspective on his own country that he got after he came to New York in 1994.
	www.artnet.com /magazineus/reviews/robinson/robinson9-26-06.asp (3354 words)

	Amazon.com: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Books: Haruki Murakami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In addition, a part of Murakami's genius is that he uses images as plot points, going from image to image, like in the marvelous story "Airplane," where, while making love, the narrator imagines strings hanging from the ceiling and how each one might open up a different possibility—good and bad.
		Murakami's stories are often described as defying typical genre classifications, and while this is true, it would be a mistake to interpret this as meaning that all Murakami stories are the same.
		Murakami seems to be in the process of re-inventing himself, and the first product of the "new" Murakami is After Dark (due to be released in English in 2007), which received mixed reviews in Japan.
	www.amazon.com /Blind-Willow-Sleeping-Haruki-Murakami/dp/1400044618 (2810 words)

	Public Art Fund: Takashi Murakami
		Takashi Murakami was born in Tokyo in 1963 and received his BFA, MFA and PhD from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.
		In addition to his work as an artist, Takashi Murakami is a curator, entrepreneur, and a student of contemporary Japanese society.
		Murakami is also internationally recognized for his collaboration with designer Marc Jacobs to create handbags and other products for the Louis Vuitton fashion house.
	www.publicartfund.org /pafweb/projects/03/murakami_t_03.html (454 words)

	Murakami hits out at Japanese nationalism \| News \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Haruki Murakami has spoken about his fears for his country amid a rise in Japanese nationalism, and revealed plans to deal with the issue in his next novel.
		In a 1997 interview with Salon.com he talked about the perils of nationalism and revisionism, saying that elements in Japanese society were "remaking history", denying the Nanking massacre and the mistreatment of Chinese and Korean women during the second world war.
		Murakami's fiction is enormously popular in China, where he has sold over 3m copies of his work in translation since the success of Norwegian Wood, first published in 1989.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,,1811674,00.html (317 words)

	The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Murakami Haruki
		This sad fact is now confirmed in Jay Rubin's Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words, where he writes that it was "stipulated in Murakami's contract that the book should not exceed a certain length".
		Murakami offers many tangential stories, some of which are very good.
		Murakami very effectively sets a mood, and sustains it throughout.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/murakamih/windupbc.htm (1791 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Magazine :: Translating Murakami
		Murakami journeyed to the States over 10 years ago to escape these photo shoots and other trappings of fame.
		Murakami’s cult status in the U.S. is threatened by this new wave of fans.
		Murakami’s increased acclaim in the U.S. has earned him star-like perks—he’s prestigious enough that his very presence is a boon for universities like Harvard—but he remains wary of his fame in the U.S. “In [big cities] I’m not recognized by people, but here the people talk to me now.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=509594 (1614 words)

	Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel (Vintage International) on All Consuming
		I’m going to agree with many others here— this is not my favourite Murakami (I don’t swing so much with the sci-fi-esque theme), and I certainly wouldn’t recommend it as a starter book, but after having read many other Murakami novels first, Wonderland was a welcome addition to the collection.
		murakami has an excellent way of making a world thats so crazy seem so believable… he writes characters with crazy tendencies and oddball lives sound so real.
		Murakami shows such a range in his works that, in my experience, is not often matched.
	allconsuming.net /item.cgi?isbn=0679743464 (934 words)

	Salon \| The Salon Interview: Haruki Murakami
		Toru Okada, the narrator of Murakami's latest opus, "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle," spends a good portion of the novel in luxuriant unemployment -- cooking, reading, swimming and waiting for a series of peculiar characters to pop by and tell him their tragic stories.
		Since Murakami doesn't hide his identification with his heroes, it's no surprise to learn that he has long felt like an odd man out in his native land, even among other writers.
		Murakami says this reassessment began during the four years he spent at Princeton, writing "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle." Besides giving him an impressive command of English, Murakami's sojourn in America had an emotional impact that he finds difficult to articulate even today, two years after his return to Japan.
	www.salon.com /books/int/1997/12/cov_si_16int.html (788 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Elephant Vanishes: Stories: Books: Haruki Murakami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		While I have declared Haruki Murakami as one of my favorite authors, others may find his work a bit intellectually oppresive and because of this I think it's important, especially for a jaded american audience to get a little taste of what you're getting before you buy this.
		As such, I believe that Murakami has done for modern Japan what Balzac and Zola did for 19th C France: the quality is that high, as is the irony and humor that permeates his work.
		Minor gripe: my favorite translator of Murakami's work is Jay Rubin and I am certain that under his watchful pen the stories would have more closely resembled the verve of their originals (in Japanese).
	www.amazon.ca /Elephant-Vanishes-Stories-Haruki-Murakami/dp/0679750533 (1834 words)

	Amazon.com: Kafka on the Shore: Books: Haruki Murakami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Murakami likes to blur the boundary between the real and the surreal—we are treated to such oddities as fish raining from the sky; a forest-dwelling pair of Imperial Army soldiers who haven't aged since WWII; and a hilarious cameo by fried chicken king Colonel Sanders—but he also writes touchingly about love, loneliness and friendship.
		Murakami's use of corporate icons and feminist figures is awkward and a bit forced.
		Murakami sends me deep into myself, where I examine those feelings and forces that churn and charge forward, driving me to express my true self and to take control of my own life.
	www.amazon.com /Kafka-Shore-Haruki-Murakami/dp/1400043662 (1965 words)

	Takashi Murakami Art Paintings Print: PicassoMio.com Gallery
		Since emerging onto the contemporary art scene, Takashi Murakami's work has done so much to challenge all that is held as sacred and sacrosanct within the domain of high art.
		Since then, Murakami has progressed as an artist to a level where his name can be heard in the same breath as Warhol, Pollock and De Koonig, mooted as someone that can join the upper echelons of the artistic hierarchy in the twenty-first century.
		Murakami paints in the self titled style of superflat, a method whereby everything within the image is portrayed in two dimensions only, and one that he used extensively during his commissioned work as a designer in 2003 for Louis Vuitton.
	www.picassomio.com /TakashiMurakami (364 words)

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