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Haruki Murakami, the internationally admired novelist, lets readers into a private corner of his life: his collection of T-shirts. The book pairs photographs of the shirts with short, candid essays that have appeared in English for the first time. Murakami is known for keeping a low public profile, so these pages offer a rare look at a more personal side of him. Most readers know of his roughly 10,000 vinyl records and his devotion to running, but his habit of collecting T-shirts is less familiar. The shirts include souvenirs from a Springsteen Broadway run in New York and a Beach Boys concert in Honolulu, along with the shirt that sparked his short story "Tony Takitani." Together, the images and essays sketch a playful, idiosyncratic portrait of the author.