Links:

    -WIKIPEDIA: Haruki Murakami
    -WIKIPEDIA: Norwegian Wood
    -FILMOGRAPHY: Haruki Murakami (IMDB)
    -READING GROUP GUIDE: Norwegian Wood
    -GOOGLE BOOK: Norwegian Wood
    -ESSAY: The Running Novelist: Learning how to go the distance. (Haruki Murakami, June 2, 2008, The New Yorker)
    -EXCERPT: from Haruki Murakami's The City and Its Uncertain Walls
    -STORY: Cream (Haruki Murakami)
    -AUDIO STORY: Bryan Washington Reads Haruki Murakami U.F.O. in Kushiro (New Yorker Fiction Podcast, 1 June 2020)
    -STORY: U.F.O. in Kushiro (Haruki Murakami, March 21, 2011, The New Yorker)
    -AUDIO STORY: Bryan Washington Reads Haruki Murakami: U.F.O. in Kushiro (The New Yorker Fiction Podcast)
    -ESSAY: Haruki Murakami Asks Himself, Who Do I Write For?: From Murakami’s New Essay Collection Novelist As Vocation (Haruki Murakami, 11/09/22, LitHub)
    -ESSAY: Haruki Murakami: The Moment I Became a Novelist: At a Baseball Game in 1978, The Writer Who Almost Wasn't (Haruki Murakami, June 25, 2015, Lit Hub)
    -ESSAY: Haruki Murakami on the Year Dave Hilton Debuted for the Yakult Swallows: “It felt as if the spring sunlight shone more intensely around him, and him alone.” (Haruki Murakami, April 5, 2021, Lit Hub)
    -ESSAY: Jazz Messenger (HARUKI MURAKAMI, July 8, 2007, NY Times)
    -ESSAY: Haruki Murakami on Cold Beer, Nothingness, and F. Scott Fitzgerald (Haruki Murakami, October 21, 2022, Interview)
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    -INTERVIEW: Haruki Murakami: ‘My books have been criticized so much over the years, I don’t pay much attention’: As his new novel is published, the acclaimed author discusses complexity, writing female characters and meeting his fans (John Self, 11/23/24, The guardian)
    -INTERVIEW: Haruki Murakami, The Art of Fiction No. 182 Interviewed by John Wray, The Paris Review)
    -INTERVIEW: Haruki Murakami: 'I've Had All Sorts Of Strange Experiences In My Life' (Petra Mayer, 4/06/21, NPR)
    -AUDIO INTERVIEW: It was 'great relief' for Haruki Murakami to finish his latest novel (Andrew Limbong, 11/11/24, NPR: All Things Considered)
    -PODCAST: Ep 662 - Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami (Overdue, August 12, 2024)
    -PODCAST: 117: “Drive My Car” by Haruki Murakami (Why is This Good, 1 December 2023)
    -VIDEO: Hear 2.5 Hours of the Classical Music in Haruki Murakami’s Novels: Liszt, Beethoven, Janá?ek, and More (NTS)
    -PROFILE: Haruki Murakami’s latest novel is an expansion of a story he started over 40 years ago. (Emily Temple, April 17, 2023, LitHub)
    -PROFILE: How Murakami Helped With the ‘Norwegian Wood’ Film ( Barbara Chai, 1/06/12, WSJ)
    -PROFILE: The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami (SAM ANDERSON, October 21, 2011, NY Times Magazine)
    -PROFILE: The lone wolf : Beloved in the West, scorned by Japanese literati, Haruki Murakami tries to make his own world, a realm of jazz and rhythmic writing. (Ben Naparstek, 6/24/06, The Age)
    -PROFILE: The loneliness of Haruki Murakami (Shaun Tandon, 27 Mar 2006, iAfrica)
    -PROFILE: Haruki Murakami - outside looking in (Sam North, HackWriters)
    -ESSAY: Nihilism or Nonsense?: The Postmodern Fiction of Martin Amis and Haruki Murakami (Wendy Jones Nakanishi, 5/08/06, electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies)
    -ESSAY: Translating Murakami: The author doesn’t want to be a celebrity, but that may not be up to him (LIZ C. GOODWIN, 11/03/05, Harvard CRIMSON)
    -ESSAY: When Murakami Came to the States: In his rigorous new book, Who We’re Reading When We’re Reading Murakami, David Karashima examines how Haruki Murakami came to be one of the most beloved writers on the planet. The excerpt below chronicles the U.S. publication of Murakami’s first book to appear stateside, A Wild Sheep Chase. (David Karashima, September 23, 2020, Paris Review)
    -PROFILE: Why Japanese author Haruki Murakami’s new book – a rewritten, expanded version of one of his stories from 1980 – took him 35 years to start (AP, 15 Apr, 2023
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    -ARTICLE: Murakami tells alma mater he was a ‘terrible student’ (AFP, 12/17/24)
    -ESSAY: Haruki Murakami and the challenge of translating Japanese’s many words for “I” (Gitte Marianne Hansen, December 10, 2024, The Conversation)
    -ESSAY: The rebel cult of Murakami: He rejected Japan's literary establishment (Christopher Harding, 11/15/24, UnHerd)
    -ARCHIVES: murakami (Harvard Crimson)
    -ARCHIVES: Haruki Murakami (The Guardian)
    -ARCHIVES: Salon Topics: Haruki Murakami (Salon)
    -ARCHIVES: Times Topics: Haruki Murakami (NY Times)
    -REVIEW: of End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland by Murakami Haruki (Complete Review)
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    -REVIEW: of Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (Complete Review)
    -REVIEW: of Norwegian Wood (Janice P. Nimura, NY Times Book Review)
    -REVIEW: of Norwegian Wood and Underground (Steve Poole, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: of Norwegian Wood (Damien G Walter, guardian.co.uk)
    -REVIEW: of Norwegian Wood (George Tysh, MetroTimes)
    -REVIEW: of Norwegian Wood (Austin Chronicle)
    -REVIEW: of Norwegian Wood (Alison Kim, Bookreporter)
    -REVIEW: of Norwegian Wood (The Book Stop)
    -REVIEW: of Norwegian Wood (The Kugelmass Episodes)
    -REVIEW: of Norwegian Wood (BlogCritics)
    -REVIEW: of First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami (Bernard Cohen, SCMP)
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    -REVIEW: of Novelist As a Vocation by Haruki Murakami (Sean O'Hagan, The Observer)
    -REVIEW: of Novelist as Vocation (Complete Review)
    -REVIEW: of Novelist as a Vocation (Robert Allen Papinchak, LA Review of Books)
    -REVIEW: of Noverlist as Vocation (Rumaan Alam, The Nation)
    -REVIEW: of The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami (Leah Rachel von Essen, Chicago Review of Books)
    -REVIEW: REVIEW: of The City and Its Uncertain Walls (AK Blakemore, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: of The City and Its Uncertain Walls (Modern Novel)
    -REVIEW: The City and Its Uncertain Walls (Pat Padua, Spectrum Culture)
    -REVIEW: Haruki Murakami’s latest novel set in the mountains of Fukushima is a masterpiece: a review of The City and its Uncertain Walls (Estelle Brana, 3/27/25, Envols)
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MOVIES:
    -FILMOGRAPHY: Haruki Murakami (IMDB)
    -ESSAY: Murakami Bingo: Is Animation the Ideal Form for Adapting the “Undadaptable” Author?: A Survey of Murakami Reimaginings, from Burning to Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Ryan Bedsaul, May 18, 2023, LitHub)
    -ESSAY: Murakami in the Movies: Only a few directors have managed to suggest the delightful incongruities of Haruki Murakami’s fiction. (Colin Marshall, May 4, 2023, The New Yorker)
    -FILM REVIEW: Norwegian Wood (Andrew O'Hehir, Salon)
    -REVIEW: of Murakami Haruki on Film by Marc Yamada (Christopher Corker, asian Review of Books)