Literary Essays

11 Takeways from Haruki Murakami’s Novelist as a Vocation

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Novelist as a vocation

The Quiet Art of Becoming: A Deep Dive into Haruki Murakami’s Novelist as a Vocation How a baseball game, a stubborn dream, and a mind full of “automatic dwarves” built a literary world unlike any other. There are writers who arrive with the noise of a brass band, pages flapping like banners in the wind.And … Read more

Stillness Among the Shelves: 9 Reasons Why We Still Need Bookshops in the Digital Age

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Stillness Among the Shelves: 9 Reasons Why We Still Need Bookshops in the Digital Age At first light, the city yawns open like an old novel. Rusted milk vans rattle past shuttered shops. Pigeons take the air in soft explosions of grey. A bookstore, still sleeping under its corrugated awning, dreams of pages and fingerprints … Read more