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Jim Knipfel

NPR
Published July 8, 2000 at 11:00 PM CDT

Jacki talks to writer Jim Knipfel about his memoir, Quitting the Nairobi Trio, (JP Tarcher 2000). The book is a darkly comic story about Knipfel's time spent in a Minneapolis psychiatric ward.

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