For his latest book, 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls,' bookstores around the country toasted at 12 AM.
Two nights ago, many New Yorkers went to Charli XCX’s surprise performance in Times Square, then crammed together for an after party at the Chelsea Hotel.
Imagine a sneaker drop, but instead of rabid hypebeasts waiting for hours at a store to get their hands on a limited-edition shoe, it’s patient bibliophiles waiting for hours at a store to be among the first to read a new work of magical realism. The new novel begins with a lonely, nameless 17-year-old boy falling in love with a lonely, nameless 16-year-old girl. She tells him about a town with very high walls, where her “real self” lives. In that town, there are no books, but there are unicorns. Shadows are cleaved from people upon entry. The girl disappears, the boy is distraught. Time passes, and on his 45th birthday, he falls and wakes up in that town, which may or may not exist in a parallel reality.
The issue with the first iteration was that “back then, I lacked the writing skills I needed to do it justice,” Murakami toldThe first rewrite “was too soon… I was still young, and my storytelling stance tended to be a bit impulsive.” Neither Murakami were at the party. But the bookshop workers did take photos to send to the 75-year-old author, who lives in Japan.J. K. Rowling’s fourth book in the series, the minute it was released in July 2000. At a particularly difficult time for the book industry—as publishing houses are shrinking and consolidating, and as the number of adults who read books isthe narrator eats blueberry muffins from a nameless coffee shop. They are “hot and fresh,” “really good,” and “delicious.
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