An Unnatural Spring: On Haruki Murakami’s “Novelist as a Vocation”
Robert Allen Papinchak reviews Haruki Murakami’s “Novelist as a Vocation,” translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen.
Robert Allen Papinchak, a former university English professor, is a freelance book critic. He has reviewed a range of fiction in newspapers, magazines, journals, and online including in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times, USA Today, People, The Writer, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, The National Book Review, the New York Journal of Books, the Washington Independent Review of Books, World Literature Today, Strand Magazine, Mystery Scene Magazine, Suspense Magazine, and others. He taught a Scene of the Crime course in London and was the mystery reviewer for Canadian journals. He has been a judge for Publishers Weekly’s BookLife Creative Writing Contest and the Nelson Algren Literary Prize for the Short Story. His own fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and received a STORY award. He is the author of Sherwood Anderson: A Study of the Short Fiction.
Robert Allen Papinchak reviews Haruki Murakami’s “Novelist as a Vocation,” translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen.
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