An Interview With Haruki Murakami

No matter how beloved Murakami is, the man himself remains to his fanbase something of a mystery, beyond his admitted obsessions with baseball, running, and jazz. Murakami’s latest book, Novelist as a Vocation, sheds some light on the clever, ever-turning brain behind the novels, offering practical advice to aspiring writers from his decades of dreaming up hidden worlds. Above all, it is an ode to the day-to-day rigors of stoking the imagination. Ever greedy for more answers, we asked the novelist about magic, happiness, and time travel.

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