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Lunch with a bigot : the writer in the world / Amitava Kumar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kumar, Amitava, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kumar, Amitava, 1963-.
- Kumar, Amitava.
- Kumar, Amitava, 1963---Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>The twenty-six essays in <I>Lunch With a Bigot</I> 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 existence.<BR></div>
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822375395
- 0822375397
- OCLC:
- 1139381698
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