Talking Breasts and Eggs with Japans Rising Literary Star, Mieko Kawakami

Published: July 23, 2020, 11:16 p.m.

b"Mieko Kawakami, whose poignant and pointed debut novel Breasts and Eggs is this season\\u2019s LARB\\u2019s Book Club selection, joins Medaya Ocher and Boris Dralyuk to discuss her career as a musician, poet, blogger, and author, the challenges facing women around the world, the state of Japanese literature, and the wonders of translation.\\nAlso, Eric Cervani, author of The Deviant's War: The Homosexual Vs. the United States of America, returns to recommend James Baldwin's classic Giovanni's Room."