Do you hope to translate any more of Salinger’s works? Murakami: I’d like to give “Nine Stories” a try, although I don’t know if I actually will or not. Other than that, I’ve been thinking on and off about a Kansai dialect translation of Franny and Zooey for a long time (laughs). To capture Zooey’s storytelling style in the Kansai dialect… (laughs). It’d never sell though.

Rob loves reading a mixture of novels, poetry anthologies and memoirs. Here are some of his favorites: Money by Martin Amis Ticket to Ride by Dennis Potter The Professionals by Owen Laukkanen The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers My Friend the Mercenary: A Memoir by James Brabazon The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge The Art of Struggle by Michel Houellebeq Life by Keith Richards Nine Stories by J D Salinger The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace 2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano Complete Poems by Charles Baudelaire Doomed Love (Penguin Great Loves) by Virgil Collected Short Stories by EM Forster Independent People by Halldor Laxness Kill Your Friends by John Niven

Gyllenhaal's production company, Nine Stories, is named for the Salinger collection, his favorite being ''Teddy.''Gyllenhaal's production company, Nine Stories, is named for the Salinger collection, his favorite being ''Teddy.''