Chachaji points us to this Time story on Jhumpa Lahiri’s new book which states the obvious:
Among the things you will not find in Jhumpa Lahiri’s fiction are: humor, suspense, cleverness, profound observations about life, vocabulary above the 10th-grade level, footnotes and typographical experiments. It is debatable whether her keyboard even has an exclamation point on […]
Every Jhumpa story ever, until the very last:
A professor A surgeon An architect An engineer in Cambridge Lexington Brookline with a Ph.D. master’s from Harvard Yale MIT Cornell Swarthmore Bryn MawrWilliams grapples with Bengaliness in a dreary suburban relationship with a charming white personan arranged-marriage dweeb.
In the last couple of weeks I’ve been taking time out for a very rare and precious activity - reading for pleasure, without worrying about having to put down a book every few pages to make review-notes. Since old habits die hard, I might post mini-re…
Hometown girl Jhumpa Lahiri, Boston University grad, made the cover of this week’s Improper Bostonian (thanks, G). She drew rockstar attendance at her MIT reading. The Boston public library system has over 200 hold requests for her new book. Its 300,000-copy first printing is from four to twelve times the sales of Rushdie’s last book, […]
Sometimes a book reviewer so hates an author’s style, the review itself becomes an example of tawdry lit. The excess and purplocity with which they fling literary feces have the hi-lo appeal of Simon Cowell berating Hermione Granger in a library. Check out these angry yet entertaining reviews of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth and Salman […]
Poor Alberto had to wear the pom-pons
In a NY Mag interview which all but calls her a musty throwback, Jhumpa Lahiri argues that it’s not that she provides no surprises in writing a hermetically-sealed world between Kendall Square and Brookline, it’s that reviewers are racist, man, racist:
Unaccustomed Earth is, once again, about upwardly mobile South […]
Our best-known Toastmasters Club refugee has sold out Symphony Space in Manhattan. Actress Rita Wolf will interp a story from Unaccustomed Earth, which will save committed fans the heartburn of shelling out $26 for 40 minutes of head down, straight through.
Or you could see her at Barnes & Noble Union Square tomorrow (Tue April 1) […]
Jhumpa Lahiri read ‘Hell-Heaven‘ at MIT last night from her upcoming short story collection Unaccustomed Earth. The story was originally published in the New Yorker in ‘04.
There were maybe 400 people in the Physics 101-style lecture hall and another 200 in an overflow line which stretched a city block, the full length of the Gehry […]