UID:
edocfu_9959677677002883
Format:
1 online resource (241 p.)
ISBN:
0-8223-7539-7
Content:
〈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〉
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-5930-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-5911-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822375395
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375395
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822375395
