Too cool for your local coffeeshop? Maybe the Hipster Book Club is for you. An outgrowth of a LiveJournal community, the HBC has launched its own website, complete with member reviews and interviews with authors Sloane (I Was Told There'd Be Cake) Crosley and Josh (I Am Not Myself These Days) Kilmer-Purcell.The HBC pointed me towards an interesting-sounding book. A Wild Haruki Chase: Reading Murakami Around the World is a collection of papers from a symposium held in Tokyo a few years ago. It covers not the author himself, but rather his readers. Murakami is a phenomenon; his work is incredibly popular all around the world, and this volume both documents that fact and tries to explain it.--David E
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