Lunch With a Bigot : The Writer in the World /
The twenty-six essays in Lunch With a Bigot are examples of how Amitava Kumar turns his observations of the world into words. A mix of memoir, reportage, thoughts on the craft of writing, and criticism, these essays tell broad stories of immigration, change, and a shift to a more globalized existenc...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Duke University Press,
2015.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Reading
- Paper
- My Hanif Kureishi life
- The map of my village
- The poetry of Gujarat riots
- Conversation with Arundhati Roy
- Salman Rushdie and me
- Bad news
- Writing
- How to write a novel
- Reading like a writer
- Writing my own satya
- Dead bastards
- The writer as a father
- Ten rules of writing
- Places
- Mofussil junction
- A collaborator in Kashmir
- At the Jaipur literature festival
- Hotel Leeward
- The mines of Jadugoda
- Upon arrival in the past
- Bookstores of New York
- People
- Lunch with a bigot
- The boxer on the flight
- Amartya's birth
- The taxi drivers of New York
- On being brown in America
- Missing person.