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Monkey Business: 'You Think You Know What Literature Is...'

NEW YORK, May 4, 2013 — Paul Auster expresses his admiration for Gen'ichiro Takahashi's range, and poet Charles Simic explores the metaphor of writing in a box, in highlights from the Asia Society/Monkey Business cross-cultural dialogue between American and Japanese writers. (3 min., 53 sec.)

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