Asia Society presents: Monkey Business
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Paul Auster and Charles Simic join Gen’ichiro Takahashi, one of Japan’s leading novelists and critics, and Mina Ishikawa, a fresh new voice in tanka poetry, for an intriguing cross-cultural encounter. The conversation will be facilitated by eminent translators Motoyuki Shibata and Ted Goossen, the editors of the acclaimed English-language anthology of newly translated Japanese writing, Monkey Business International.
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