It has been announced that a new short story anthology by Haruki Murakami, titled Ichininshō tansū [First person singular] will be published on July 18, 2020 in Japan. This will be the first Murakami story collection in six years, since Men without Woman. Apparently, it will include seven short stories published in the literary magazine Bungakukai during 2018 and 2019, and at least one new story - perhaps the title one?
Four of the stories have already appeared in English translation. "Cream," "With the Beatles," and "Confessions of the Shinagawa Monkey" were published in The New Yorker. The first one appeared in the January 18, 2019 issue (you can find it here), the second one in the February 17-24, 2020 issue (you can find it here), and the last one in the June 8-15, 2020 issue (you can find it here). A fourth story, "Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova," appeared in Granta 148, August 1, 2019 (you can find it here). All have been translated by Philip Gabriel.
The book may be pre-ordered on Amazon Japan here. So far, the cover has not been released.
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