{"id":260016,"date":"2008-02-01T17:40:03","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T17:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/02\/01\/murakami-interview\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:34:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:34:36","slug":"murakami-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/02\/01\/murakami-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Murakami Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve never spent $17 on a magazine except once: the January 2007 issue of GQ Korea. I was in a Korean bookstore in Los Angeles, looking for Yi Sang\u2019s fiction (I\u2019ll talk about Yi Sang in detail later, such a weird, beautiful writer) when I saw the magazine, with Matt Damon on the cover. Anyways, I bought the magazine because it had a 10-pp interview with the elusive Haruki Murakami, who shuns interviews in general. Perhaps the fact that the interviewer was not a professional literary critic, but a journalism student at University of Hawaii, made Murakami warm up to her &#8211; I\u2019ve never read any other Murakami interview in which he is as relaxed as he is in the GQ Korea interview. The interviewer\u2019s name is Jin Young Lee, and I have no idea how she tracked Murakami down in Hawaii. I\u2019ll be posting segments from her interview in three parts or so, in my hasty and imperfect translation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/selfdivider.com\/base\/?p=28\">Part 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/selfdivider.com\/base\/?p=40\">Part 2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/selfdivider.com\/base\/?p=54\">Part 3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/selfdivider.com\/base\/?p=76\">Part 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never spent $17 on a magazine except once: the January 2007 issue of GQ Korea. I was in a Korean bookstore in Los Angeles, looking for Yi Sang\u2019s fiction (I\u2019ll talk about Yi Sang in detail later, such a weird, beautiful writer) when I saw the magazine, with Matt Damon on the cover. Anyways, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[2136,6506],"class_list":["post-260016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ejvl","tag-haruki-murakami"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359566,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260016\/revisions\/359566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}