What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

It's got a straightforward, matter of fact clip to it. The words have the persistent cadence of a light jog. It's a stream of consciousness diary of Murakami wherein I find out this amazing novelist is also an avid runner. We're talking marathon, ultramarathon, triathalon runner now into his 50's.

It didn't shed any new light on his books. It doesn't have the wind in your hair, running narrative that Once a Runner employs to great effect. It's just a literary sort of emptying of pockets accompanied by a wry “So there you go.”