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Byline: Katie Baker
In the annals of literary history, novelists have often been sports maniacs--Hemingway had his hunting, Mailer his boxing, Plimpton his football. Now Japanese cult writer Haruki Murakami has his marathons. In his new memoir, "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running," the author chronicles a season of training (he's completed at least one 42km race per year for more than two decades) with his typically understated, repetitive style--one that mirrors the act of long-distance running itself.
The book is mostly a collection of thoughts, jotted down as Murakami ...