Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love

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I'm a Murakami completist, so of course I'm going to read (look at it), but this is the part of the Murakami marathon when your calf starts cramping AFTER the real race is over. I found that the interview section did repeat some information found in the essays, so I’m not entirely sure why it’s there in this book or was even included in the magazine to begin with, except that, in the case of the former, it slightly lengthens a very short book. Having a lot of free time, more than you know what to do with—that’s the key, above all, if you want to have a collection.

Asked whether he still sees himself as a private person, given that he has donated a vast collection of his belongings including tens of thousands of records to Tokyo’s Waseda University, which is now constructing the Haruki Murakami Library, Murakami said no. He if fond of hoarding vinyl records and along with his collection of books, we get to see a very intimate as well as a different side of Murakami through this book. It’s a quirky idea for a book that’s also very Murakami-esque, but Murakami T is definitely only something fans will bother with - though even to those I would say not to expect anything amazing from this short book.

The best-selling author sits down with Vanity Fair to discuss the hotly anticipated Scorsese film expanding his book’s reach—and the Oklahoma law that could stifle its teaching in schools. They’re easy to read and well-written, but for the most part they’re a series of underwhelming pieces. After all, some of the T-shirts he receives are from his publishers around the world who send him promotional items based on his work. S.-based reader sent this Wind-Up Bird Chronicle–inspired shirt to Murakami in Japan after reading the novel.

One of the T-shirts in your book has a Lone Star beer logo on it, but you say you’ve never drunk a Lone Star.In Murakami T, the famously reclusive novelist shows us his T-shirts--including gems from the Springsteen on Broadway show in NYC, to the Beach Boys concert in Honolulu, to the shirt that inspired the beloved short story Tony Takitani. This is my favourite T-shirt because it has been worn soft by time and yet its print has preserved with perfect crispness.