Stuart

I co-wrote the foreword to this book and Erin is a friend of mine so I am super biased, but I think this is a great primer in how to think about experimentation, and how to practically go about it. Also, I have 10 copies, so if you’d like one let me know and I’ll ship one to you :)

I read Norwegian wood the year after I had been to Japan as a teenager, and the book, and that trip combined were responsible for a now 25 year long fascination with and eduction in Japan and Japanese. I dread re-reading it because I don’t think it could ever live up to that kind of impact, but I will always love it for what it did for me as a directionless teenager looking for a sense of direction and for a place t place my passion. I know Murakami is often critiqued for writing the same novel over and over again, but it’s a good novel, and this is perhaps the best version of it.

it’s been 15 years since I read this and I still think about it all the time. Maybe it’s time for a second read…