This is a book club episode. In it, Travis and Amanda will discuss and analyze the second half of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami. You should expect full “spoilers,” discussions of rhetorical elements, and celebrations / critiques of style and substance.
From the cover: “Hyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is Haruki Murakami’s deep dive into the very nature of consciousness. Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe…What emerges is a novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.”