Mark Berry

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Apr 3, 2017

In Other Words

After listening to Jhumpa Lahiri’s insightful podcast conversation with Tyler Cowen a month back, I went on a little bit of a JL spree, checking out both Interpreter of Maladies and In Other Words from the good ole Sunset Branch of the SFPL and tossing her new translation of Domenico Starnone into my…

The Murakami Universe

Five pages into any new Murakami book and I am plopped right back into the same mystical noirish universe. It is not so much the plot (though each main character seems to be another refraction of the same lonely soul) as it is the sentences themselves that return me to this Murakami space…

Interpreter of Maladies

Seinfeld was allowed to be a show about nothing, about parking spots and Chinese restaurants and life; not a show about thirty-something white people on the Upper West Side. Senfield had the privilege of the white default, of having no message to carry or interest group to be beholden…