The Nineties-Chuck Klosterman

Published: 2022 (Penguin) Setting: Chuck Klosterman’s Mind Summary: Chuck Klosterman recaps and dissects the Nineties as a feeling, not as a stated fact in his newest book, The Nineties.  Weaving cultural analysis, political commentary, and personal experience Klosterman paints a picture of the Nineties with a deft hand and an inquisitive mind. Klosterman is interested in how theContinue reading “The Nineties-Chuck Klosterman”

First Person Singular-Haruki Murakami

Published: 2020 (Bungeishunju) Summary (of each story):  Cream: A young man gets stood up by an old piano partner and decides to sit on a park bench. He has a panic or stress-induced attack and hallucinates. His hallucinations bring him a form of reprieve he can come back to that allows him to forget momentsContinue reading “First Person Singular-Haruki Murakami”