"How Ordinary People Can Make a Living as Novelists" By: Kikuko Tsumura Interviewer: Junichiro Shimada Publisher: Natsume-sha Price: 1,760 yen (tax included) With obi, first edition. After purchasing new, I read it once with a cover on. Book Contents: How to spend your youth, what it means to work, and how to write. A long interview filled with hints for living, based on conversations with a novelist over four days.