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filled with the kind of determined cheer that masked a deeper despair.
Ruth Ozeki • The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel
The chocolate cake was good, Momo said. We had milk, too. Warm milk. In the shop, I noticed that the back of Momo's neck smelled. It smelled sweet. Her growing up repulses me. It is not her growing that disgusts me, but the growing itself. She casts off unneeded things. So many things. She can't help herself. And so I pity her. Her youth, her ignor
... See moreHiromi Kawakami • Manazuru
Makiko looked old. Everyone looks older as the years go by, but that’s not what I mean. She wasn’t even forty, but if she told you “I just turned fifty-three,” you’d wish her happy birthday. She didn’t look older. She literally looked old.
Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett, • Breasts and Eggs
The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami (Published 2011)
nytimes.com

The lower shelves were where I kept the paperbacks I figured I’d never read again. The names on the spines, Herman Hesse, Raymond Radiguet, and Kyusaku Yumeno, had all faded in the sun. Lord of the Flies, Pride and Prejudice, and my Dostoyevsky, The Gambler, Notes from Underground, and The Brothers Karamazov. Chekhov, Camus, Steinbeck. The Odyssey
... See moreMieko Kawakami • Breasts and Eggs
When Will Helen DeWitt Be Recognized As One of the Great American Novelists?
Christian Lorentzenvulture.com