With a chuckle, translator and literary critic Motoyuki Shibata recalls the way author Steven Millhauser once described him.

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"(He) compared me with a dwarf who works while he's sleeping," Shibata says. "And that's literally true: I'm very small, and because of the time difference, I work while they sleep."