Category Archives: Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami: On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning

This short story is by Haruki Murakami. I copied it from this web­site.
On See­ing the 100% Per­fect Girl One Beau­ti­ful April Morn­ing.
One beau­ti­ful April morn­ing, on a nar­row side street in Tokyo’s fash­ion­able Haru­juku neigh­bor­hood, I walked past the 100% per­fect girl.
Tell you the truth, she’s not that good-looking. She doesn’t stand out in any …

October 10, 2009 – 5:56 pm | By Matthew Scheer | Posted in Haruki Murakami | Comments (2)

More Haruki Murakami in What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

The fol­low­ing is more from Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Run­ning:
It might be a lit­tle silly for some­one get­ting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want to make sure I get the facts down clearly: I’m the kind of per­son who likes to be …

September 20, 2009 – 9:41 pm | By Matthew Scheer | Posted in Haruki Murakami, Health, Mental Exercise, Professionalism, Rites of Passage, Running, Toxin, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Writing | Tagged | Comments (0)

Haruki Murakami, Excerpts on Writing

From an Inter­view of Haruki Murakami by salon.com:
You remem­ber that scene in the mys­te­ri­ous hotel? I like the story of Orpheus, his descend­ing, and this is based on that. The world of death and you enter there at your own risk. I think that I am a writer, and I can do that. I am …

August 17, 2009 – 8:47 pm | By Matthew Scheer | Posted in Haruki Murakami, Writing | Comments (0)