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Sep 2021
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Rebecca Curtis Reads Haruki Murakami

WNYC STUDIOS AND THE NEW YORKER
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Rebecca Curtis joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey,” by Haruki Murakami, which was published in The New Yorker in 2020. Curtis is the author of the story collection “Twenty Grand: and Other Tales of Love and Money.”

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