(Hear Ilana Simons read his version of that story in her short animated film above). Then he suddenly became a novelist after an epiphany at a baseball game. Murakami became a convert to jazz fandom at the age of 15 and until age 30 ran a jazz club. Murakami, who is well known for his intense focus and heroic achievements as a marathon and double-marathon runner, exceeds even this consuming passion with his near-religious devotion to music. When it comes to hip, prolific modern novelist Haruki Murakami, we might say the author himself may not exist without his soundtracks, and they are sprawling and extensive. It might even be said many such books would not exist without their internal soundtracks. Music and writing are inseparable in the hippest modern novels, from Kerouac to Nick Hornby to Irvine Welsh.
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