Pointing to the animated film seen above, Psychologist Ilana Simons pays tribute to her favorite living writer, the “psychologically minded” Haruki Murakami:

Haruki Murakami’s fans tend to say he touches the otherwise-private areas in their minds. Murakami is a Japanese novelist who is a minimalist with language: He inspires grand journeys of imagination without using too many adjectives. He says he sometimes writes his novels in English—which is not his first language—to limit his vocabulary and assume an odd relationship to ordinary life.

Read Murakami’s recent New Yorker short story, “Yesterday,” here.