Haruki Murakami on donor motivations (and crowdfunding)
4 min readJul 21, 2020
Because I live in Japan I feel duty-bound to read as much Ogawa, Murakami, and Ishiguro to help me understand this magical, infuriating, weird, and wonderful country.
So, after three false starts I finished Norwegian Wood (all it took was two flights and two young children plugged into two iPad films).