@earthlibarmy No idea what this has to do with what I posted! No mention of McCarthy, I’m not a Brooklynite, and I wouldn’t limit this criticism to Murakami. Early Pynchon definitely has a similar woman problem, for instance!
@mcmansionhell Said as a big fan of the guy: you can’t give this prize to a guy that writes women as if they are an alien species! also he’s been repeating himself since about the late 90s. He had a good run, not even close to Nobel Prize worthy
a guy wheeled his buddy into the er and told the receptionist he had taken fifty benadryl and in the most chipper unfazed tone she said “why’d you do that!”
An apt day to remember that Dolly Parton once recorded a cover of Stairway to Heaven - and, in defiance of every moral law in the universe, she absolutely owned it.