Going the distance

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, by Haruki Murakami

There’s nothing tremendous, startling, or even revelatory about Haruki Murakami’s latest book. The whole exercise is too pointedly modest for that. But it’s a likeable and often rewarding excursion into the writer’s experiences as a runner.

It’s also, perhaps inevitably, about Murakami’s life as a writer, since for him, the two are neatly intertwined.