Largehearted Boy pointed out a posting on the blog How to Japanese which speculates about the recently announced novel by Haruki Murakami--puportedly titled 1Q84. It has been announced in Japanese, anyway; I can't find mention of an English edition as yet. There's not a lot of hard news as yet, but Murakami fans (this blogger … Continue reading Far Off, In the East

Colm Toibin, author of The Blackwater Lightship among many other prize-winning novels, has given a very strange interview to The Manchester Review. For example: What do you enjoy most about your life as a writer?The money. I never knew there would be money. It is such a surprise. And I like not having to leave … Continue reading "I don’t have any rules or principles."