Introduction

This month we're going to hear u f o in cushiro by hariki marakami, translated from the japanese by j reuben. The story was chosen by bryan washington, whose debu story collection, lot was published last year,. and whose first novel, memorial, will come out in october. i just remember feeling as if i were reading something that i just hadn't been, not only privy to, but just like a sort of reality that i hadn't imagined even it was a very visceral, very sereale a reading him for the first time. I didn't really grow up as voracious of a reader as a lot of my