What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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What I Talk About When I Talk About Ru n nin,g A MEMOIR Haruki Murakami ...

Contents Title Page Foreword: Suffering Is Optional e: Who’s Going to Laugh at Mick Jagger? o: Tips on Becoming a Running Noveli ...

Foreword Suffering Is Optional There’s a wise saying that goes like this: A real gentleman never discusses women he’s broken up ...

At a certain point, though, I decided that I should just write honestly about what I think and feel about running, and stick to ...

One AUGUST 5, 2005 • KAUAI, HAWAII Who’s Going to Laugh at Mick Jagger? I’m on Kauai, in Hawaii, today, Friday, August 5, 2005. ...

weather pattern. Nothing abstruse or ambivalent about it, not a speck of the metaphoric or the symbolic. On the way I passed a f ...

master the other two legs of the event I had to devote a great deal of time to training in swimming and biking. I had to start o ...

running full marathons are very much alike. Basically a writer has a quiet, inner motivation, and doesn’t seek validation in the ...

It’s been ten years since I last lived in Cambridge (which was from 1993 to 1995, back when Bill Clinton was president). When I ...

It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want to make sure I get the facts ...

‘Satisfaction’ when I’m forty-five.” But now he’s over sixty and still singing “Satisfaction.” Some people might find this funny ...

When I’m criticized unjustly (from my viewpoint, at least), or when someone I’m sure will understand me doesn’t, I go running fo ...

convinced, it’s already too late. But what’re you going to do? That’s the kind of person I am. As I run I tell myself to think o ...

Two AUGUST 14, 2005 • KAUAI, HAWAII Tips on Becoming a Running Novelist It’s August 14th, a Sunday. This morning I ran an hour a ...

kinds of painful experiences, things I had to rack my brains about, and plenty of disappointments. But I worked like crazy, and ...

Stadium. (Nobody ever thought that Yakult would win, so they had already arranged for their home venue, Jingu Stadium, to be use ...

and write your novels?” From the world’s viewpoint this makes perfect sense. And most people probably didn’t think I’d make it a ...

go to a pool. After I closed my bar, I thought I’d change my lifestyle entirely, so we moved out to Narashino, in Chiba Prefectu ...

After I closed the bar and began my life as a novelist, the first thing we—and by we I mean my wife and I—did was completely rev ...