Chekhov's Mistress
Champion on Murakami
This guy Ed really is a great writer. Here are a few words from his review of Murakami’s Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman:
The collection is not without its gems. When Murakami taps into his panache for merging the mundane with the surreal, he is a focused and delightfully phantasmagorical writer. In “Birthday Girl,” a waitress is forced to bring dinner to a mysterious restaurant owner who never leaves his room. The owner grants her an unexpected offer, and Murakami closes the tale on a graceful note of ambiguity, refusing to reveal the exact nature of what occurred…
…There is no doubt that Murakami has talent and a keen imaginative voice, but panning for gilt in this murky collection yields more fool’s gold than the effort is worth.
”Talented Writer Comes Up Short” Philly Inquirer, Sept. 10th (thanks KMB)
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One can find the whole text here:
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/entertainment/books/15480215.htm
(via the writers own blog)
– KMB (09/12 at 08:50 AM)
Is there your wry way of suggesting that I came up short? 
– ed (09/12 at 03:23 PM)
Ed, can’t you take a compliment?
– Bud Parr (09/12 at 06:01 PM)
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: September 11, 2006
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