I began writing for Open Culture with a post on In Search of Haruki Murakami, a BBC documentary on the elusiveness of the novelist and his work. In the years since, I do believe I’ve written more about Murakami there than I have any other culture figure, Western or Eastern, living or dead. (Orson Welles probably comes in second.) Here are all my posts of Murakamiana (fueled by Murakamania?) so far:
- In Search of Haruki Murakami: A Documentary Introduction to Japan’s Great Postmodernist Novelist (2/15/12)
- Haruki Murakami Translates The Great Gatsby, the Novel That Influenced Him Most (5/26/13)
- Haruki Murakami’s Passion for Jazz: Discover the Novelist’s Jazz Playlist, Jazz Essay & Jazz Bar (7/31/14)
- A Photographic Tour of Haruki Murakami’s Tokyo, Where Dream, Memory, and Reality Meet (8/21/14)
- A 56-Song Playlist of Music in Haruki Murakami’s Novels: Ray Charles, Glenn Gould, the Beach Boys & More (8/29/14)
- Haruki Murakami’s Advice Column (“Mr. Murakami’s Place”) Is Now Online: Read English Translations (1/20/15)
- Haruki Murakami Reads in English from The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in a Rare Public Reading (1998) (2/11/15)
- Discover Haruki Murakami’s Advertorial Short Stories: Rare Short-Short Fiction from the 1980s (4/20/15)
See also my favorite Open Culture posts so far, a list which of course includes a bit of Murakami itself.