![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s apparent that he has a big literary arm with a far reach. He mentions an instance when a young woman approached him and asked how he understood teenager girls’ problems so well, despite his admission that he writes for no specific group of people. From his estimation, his readers are pretty much evenly split between men and women, and his writing has appealed to a variety of age groups. ![]() He doesn’t write primarily for old audiences or young ones. He confesses that he doesn’t have a particular kind of reader in mind when he writes. Murakami’s thoughts on his readership and audience particularly stood out to me. Most of the book was composed during or before 2015 but was just published last year, and is basically a compendium of essays on the novel-writing process, how Murakami got started, and the broader literary landscape. As a young novelist myself, I wanted to learn a professional’s thoughts on the trade and also get a sense of his philosophy of writing, which in the age of AI, feels increasingly valuable. Murakami is the author of 1Q84, Norwegian Wood, and Kafka on the Shore, among many others. I just finished a book by the renowned Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami called Novelist as a Vocation. Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flipboard Print arroba Email ![]()
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