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The Moth: Bar Mitvah Battle, And Literary Stories

October 7, 2012
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A boy's Bar Mitzvah becomes a family battle ground; three literary pilgrims search for the author Paul Bowles in Morocco; a novelist decides that the only way to cure her writer's block is to block out the world.

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