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Lunch with a bigot : the writer in the world /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kumar, Amitava, 1963- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Kumar, Amitava, > 1963-
Kumar, Amitava, > 1963- > Criticism and interpretation.
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.