By Haruki Murakami The following is from the introduction to The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories. From Seppuku to Meltdown I once heard the story that when jazz drummer Buddy Rich was being admitted to a hospital, the nurse at the front desk asked him if he had any allergies. “On...
January 7, 2025 by ElCicco Leave a Comment This is a collection of short stories that I picked up last month from a great little bookstore in Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Book Bus Depot is the only bookstore in the US to sell Persephone Books, which, as per their website, “reprints ...
Much of Shiga’s fiction is concerned with difficult family relationships, and his concern with the psychological involvements of his first-person heroes places some of his stories in the category ofshishōsetsu(“I,” or autobiographical, fiction). Both the storyWakai(1917; “Reconciliation”) and...