Selected Shorts

Adios, Sayonara, Goodbye!


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Host Meg Wolitzer presents three stories by contemporary Japanese writers that were featured during a live program created in collaboration with the Japan Society. Each touches on the idea of letting go.  In “Hawaii,” Aoko Matsuda imagines a afterlife for garments.  It’s read by Maria Dizzia.  In “Sunrise,” by Erika Kobayashi, a woman’s life parallels the world of nuclear power.  The reader is Rita Wolf.  And Hugh Dancy meets a mermaid in Hiromi Kawakami’s “I Won’t Let You Go.”

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