Fiction writing is partly the process of clarifying what lies within you. Through these steps, I gain a deeper understanding of the meaning behind the experience. "So I reshape them over and over and fictionalize them, to the point where, in some cases, you can't detect what they were modeled after. "In this book, I wanted to try pursuing a 'first person singular' format, but I don't like relating my experiences just the way they are," Murakami tells me in an email interview. You get drawn into the spiral, and soon you're in that strange world where many of his stories exist, a place full of his favorite things (jazz, baseball, the Beatles, though surprisingly few cats this time) and yet unmistakably odd, existing at a slight, unexplained angle to reality. The stories in Haruki Murakami's new collection, First Person Singular, have a sort of fractal nature - you're reading a story by a middle-aged Japanese man in which a middle-aged Japanese man is telling you a story (and sometimes that story involves him telling other stories). Haruki Murakami's new story collection is First Person Singular.
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