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Murakami isn’t so much a novelist as a fictional anthologist, collating various monologues delivered by his characters; some of these are riveting narratives in their own right, but many simply serve to explain what’s going on or clumsily advance the plot.
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Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
In the 1920s and 1930s Walter de la Mare was considered one of Britain’s major literary figures, a triple threat as poet, storyteller, and anthologist.
—Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023
Many years later, John—who by this point was a pioneering anthologist of folk music—was hit and killed by a Hasidic Jew hurrying home for the Sabbath.
—Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 23 July 2020
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Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
In the 1920s and 1930s Walter de la Mare was considered one of Britain’s major literary figures, a triple threat as poet, storyteller, and anthologist.
—Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023
Many years later, John—who by this point was a pioneering anthologist of folk music—was hit and killed by a Hasidic Jew hurrying home for the Sabbath.
—Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 23 July 2020
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“Anthologist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anthologist. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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