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In the September 5th issue of The New Yorker, Haruki Murakami has a piece of fiction called “Town of Cats.” Here Blake Eskin talks with Murakami’s longtime translator Jay Rubin about how he became a Murakami fan and translator, the reception in Japan of Murakami’s latest novel, “1Q84,” and why Rubin doesn’t recommend reading literature in translation.
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