Finished reading: Men Without Women Stories by Haruki Murakami 📚

I love Murakami, and most of these stories were really good, but “Kino” is an all time great. It really struck me and has stayed with me in a significant way. Feels very Japanese in the way a Studio Ghibli film does - there’s a gentle simplicity to it, with an undercurrent of loneliness.

The last time a short story landed this way for me was Salinger’s “The Laughing Man,” which I suddenly really want to re-read.