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Lydia Millet’s first short story collection, Love in Infant Monkeys, is filled with fictionalized tales of celebrities’ real-life confrontations with exotic species. She reads from her story ‘Sir Henry’ about David Hasselhoff’s dachshund and tells Kurt why she’s not afraid of lawyers.

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