Ultrabrown (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ok, it doesn't matter how much you dislike Jhumpa Lahiri's writing, how can you not fall in love with her dad making pulao? Personally, I'm not entirely convinced about either the recipe (no black peppercorns, really') or Amar Lahiri's assertion that it's not buttery, but as a wise person said, "It's hard to go wildly [...]
Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The guests included Mukesh Ambani, Michael Bloomberg, Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, Deepak Chopra, Katie Couric, Bobby Jindal, Deval Patrick, Fareed Zakraria, Sanjay Gupta, Jhumpa Lahiri, Jeffrey Katzenenberg. AR Rahman performed. Wish we could see a video of that.
Today With President Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
As usual, Michelle Obama uses tonight's State dinner as an opportunity to teach. Michelle speaks to young women who are part of the White House Leadership and Mentoring Program on the history and protocol surrounding State and Official Visits. Tonight's dinner is in honor of Prime Minister Singh of India. For details on the din din menu itself, visit ObamaFoodORama . Jennifer Hudson is performing,...
HispanicTrending (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
November 22, 2009 By ANNE MORRIS This ambitious anthology brings together 85 writings by American immigrants from 45 countries. Arranged chronologically, the letters, stories, articles and poems extend from 1623 to the present. The earliest ones, by Phyllis Wheatley, John James Audubon and St. John Crèvecoeur, often have a schoolbook feel, like a reading assignment for an American history class...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
'I felt that the only thing I was on earth to do was to write' A couple of months ago Mavis Gallant had a dream. A messenger came to the door carrying a cardboard box with a lid on it. On top was written "Mavis Gallant" in big letters – and underneath it "Bad Prose". "I was devastated. Devastated for days. I thought, they aren't telling me the truth." In fact, Gallant...
Song of a Reformed Headhunter (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
The Asian American Writers' Workshop expanded its annual awards ceremony into a literary festival. The one-day event took place yesterday at the Powerhouse Arena, in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Two separate readings took place at every hour from 11 AM to 6 PM. I attended the 4 PM session "Sex and the Cities: Stories of Love & the Metropolis" with readings by Hari Kunzru, Monique Truong and Mort...
Secondhand Smoking Jacks (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Here are the books my book club selected for the 2009-2010 year: Nov: The Emperor's Children, Claire Messud Dec: Sula, Toni Morrison Jan: Dracula, Bram Stoker (in the designated slot for a classic) Feb: Dreamers of the Day, Mary Doria Russell Mar: Bel Canto, Ann Patchett Apr: Three Novels: Nathan + two others, Wendell Berry May: Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri June: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David...
Open Book (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
1. This first line is from 'Year's End,' one of eight short stories in Jhumpa Lahiri's book Unaccustomed Earth. This title was named one of the best books of 2008 by the New York Times Book Review for good reason....
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The Asian American Literary Award in fiction has gone to Jhumpa Lahiri for her short story collection, UNACCUSTOMED EARTH , with Leslie Chang taking the nonfiction award for FACTORY GIRLS: From Village to City in a Changing China.
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
[Interviewer's Note: This is a series of interviews featuring the contributors of The Apex Book of World SF edited by Lavie Tidhar. It'll run every Monday to Friday until I run out of interviews. Two of these interviews will be reprinted in Apex Magazine but the rest are exclusive to SF Signal.] An early encounter with Ray Bradbury's "A Sound Of Thunder" led to Anil Menon to both science...
Bostonist (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Sunday, November 8 All day: Harvard Book Store ’s annual frequent buyer sale. Customers who have signed up for a Frequent Buyer Card BEFORE November 8th will be eligible to receive 20% off all purchases of new, used and bargain books, as well as data-based Print on Demand titles and non-book items throughout the store. Monday, November 9 12:00 pm, UMass Boston Campus Center, 3rd Floor, Room...
Another 52 Books (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Discover the literature of a foreign country you are not much familiar with. I plan to see if I can find some English translations of Indian writers while I am in India, because my reading of Indian literature consists of a prose retelling of the stories told in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, and a handful of books by Indian women writers who write in English*. When this posts (I am posting this...
The Patient's Doctor (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Medicine In Translation | Psychology Today : "I see the doctor as a translator. For most people, medicine is a foreign country, with its own language, customs, and mores. My patients are immigrants to this country, and many feel very disoriented. My job, as their physician, is to translate this alien world for them, to help them acclimatize and hopefully thrive. Jhumpa Lahiri used a beautiful...
My Machberet (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
If you're in New York City and have time available on Tuesday evening, October 27, you may want to check out this event at Columbia University:"Join Ilan Stavans, editor of The Library of America's new anthology Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing, and two contributors, award-winning writers Jhumpa Lahiri and Gary Shteyngart, for an evening of readings and discussion. Open...
hello, typepad (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
She has an uncanny ability to talk about uncertainty in a way that yields revelation—or, rather, to accept uncertainty as a condition of revelation. Describing her path to becoming a writer (she began writing stories around the age of five,...
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