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Mung Jin is the author of the novel Little Gods,

a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Award in LA LA Times First Fiction Prize, also long-listed

for the Penn Open Book Award. She is a Kundy Monfellow and a David T.K. Wong fellow.

Her writing has appeared in some literary journals and magazines, as well as in the anthologies

Pushcart Prize, Best of the Small Presses, and Best American Short Stories.

Her next book, Self Portrait with Ghost, a collection of short fictions, is forthcoming from Custom House in summer 2022.

She is at work on a new novel, Mothers and Girls, a fake memoir, for which she received a 2021 Creative Capital Award. Today, she is a new novel, Mothers and Girls, a fake memoir for which she received a 2021 Creative Capital Award.

Today, she will be reading a section of her short story in the event, originally published

in the Best American Short Stories. She will be accompanied by an original storybound remix.

Hi, I'm Meng Jin, and you're listening to Storybound.

Today I'll be reading from my short story in the event,

originally published in the Three Penny Review,

and forthcoming in my collection of short stories,

self-portrait with Ghost.

Is crypto perfect?

Nope.

But neither was email when it was invented in 1972.

And yet today, we send 347 billion emails every single day.

Crypto is no different. It's new, but like email,

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