Satisfy the voyeur in you by peeping the literary orgy in Manhattan:
| Pankaj Mishra, in puffy shirt and boho beard, was the absolute star with a hilariously barbed passage from Butter Chicken in Ludhiana. | |
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Only two of the authors reading were second-gen: Jhumpa Lahiri and Vijay Seshadri, the O.G. ABCD in his 50s who teaches at Sarah Lawrence. ‘Thelma,’ a love poem from The Long Meadow: baritone wit, a thatch of gray hair and vulnerability. |
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Read his iconic passage on the Bombay monsoon from Maximum City. |
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Spying a courgette in his ex-lover’s hand, Shamsie’s protagonist asked, ‘Is that domesticity or a dildo?’ |
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Flip-haired, moddish diplomat with the rich tones of a British lord read aloud about book markets in Baghdad. |
Update: DesiLit has more.
















