Lunch With a Bigot : The Writer in the World /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kumar, Amitava, 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Duke University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Kumar, Amitava, > 1963-
Kumar, Amitava, > 1963- > Criticism and interpretation.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
Essais.
Essays.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Essays
essays.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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