![]() ![]() ![]() Murakami is quick to agree that running is not for everybody: "No matter how strong a will a person has, if is an activity he doesn't really care for, he won't keep it up for long." Rather than evangelize to non-believers, Murakami focuses on running as a metaphor for novel writing. His favorite band to listen to while running is the Lovin' Spoonful who are most famous for their song, "Do You Believe in Magic?" He also enjoys listening to Eric Clapton on runs. "I've never able to keep a regular diary for very long," Murakami writes, "but I've faithfully kept up my runner's journal." The author's training regimen consists of running six days a week, never for less than an hour at a time. Murakami began his love affair with running in the 1980s and has since completed more than twenty-five marathons along with a sixty-two-mile "ultramarathon." Most of the book is adapted from journal entries Murakami wrote while training three months before the 2005 New York marathon. Beloved for novels like The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, Murakami here combines elements of a traditional memoir with philosophical musings about running and writing. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007) is a memoir by the award-winning Japanese author Haruki Murakami. ![]()
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