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Interpreter of Maladies
“So I wrote Interpreter of Maladies; that was my first book. I called it that — I heard the title in this strange flash.”
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Jhumpa Lahiri
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The Last Diary
“These writings were collected in a book called The Last Diary, which I read. They’re almost like little fragments, epigrams, some of these little entries.”
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The Great Gatsby
“I read The Great Gatsby that year. And the following year I was introduced to Hardy, who has become so important to me as well.”
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01 / recommendation
Mentions personal use of The Great Gatsby.
“I read The Great Gatsby that year. And the following year I was introduced to Hardy, who has become so important to me as well.”
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02 / recommendation
Built Interpreter of Maladies.
“So I wrote Interpreter of Maladies; that was my first book. I called it that — I heard the title in this strange flash.”
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03 / recommendation
Mentions personal use of The Last Diary.
“These writings were collected in a book called The Last Diary, which I read. They’re almost like little fragments, epigrams, some of these little entries.”
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04 / uncertainty
I don’t know. I hate to make these kind of sweeping generalized comments. I don’t believe in them.
“I don’t know. I hate to make these kind of sweeping generalized comments. I don’t believe in them.”
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05 / belief
Merwin, Mark Strand — you have examples of people who translate and make that part of their creative work, but relatively few fiction writers stop to think about it or engage with it. I think my knowledge of Italian writers has opened up something.
“Merwin, Mark Strand — you have examples of people who translate and make that part of their creative work, but relatively few fiction writers stop to think about it or engage with it. I think my knowledge of Italian writers has opened up something.”
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06 / uncertainty
Yeah, I talk a little bit in this little essay about being drawn to certain books just because there’s some allure, appeal, something I’m projecting, something the book is projecting, something I’m projecting onto the book, some relationship I want to have with the book because it’s — I don’t know — some landscape I want to find myself in someday, or I don’t know.
“Yeah, I talk a little bit in this little essay about being drawn to certain books just because there’s some allure, appeal, something I’m projecting, something the book is projecting, something I’m projecting onto the book, some relationship I want to have with the book because it’s — I don’t know — some landscape I want to find myself in someday, or I don’t know.”
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07 / belief
I think . . . I’m not going to get into any trouble. [laughter] Any more trouble than I’m already in.
“I think . . . I’m not going to get into any trouble. [laughter] Any more trouble than I’m already in.”
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08 / belief
Pavese wrote very much in the autobiographical vein and did things that, again, I think now, “Oh, it’s fashionable when the writer becomes a character,” and “Oh, we all write about ourselves,” and there’re a lot of memoirs.
“Pavese wrote very much in the autobiographical vein and did things that, again, I think now, “Oh, it’s fashionable when the writer becomes a character,” and “Oh, we all write about ourselves,” and there’re a lot of memoirs.”
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09 / disagreement
A very prolific author of short stories and novels, of some very incisive short stories about domestic life and classified — unfairly, I think — as a writer for women, which I don’t think she is at all.
“A very prolific author of short stories and novels, of some very incisive short stories about domestic life and classified — unfairly, I think — as a writer for women, which I don’t think she is at all.”
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10 / evaluation
Not about who he is but maybe how we project, how we like to project sameness onto other people to make them more comfortable to us and to dilute the sense of difference.
“Not about who he is but maybe how we project, how we like to project sameness onto other people to make them more comfortable to us and to dilute the sense of difference.”
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11 / evaluation
Of course the difference between her and myself is that she always had an antagonistic relationship with French, even though she went out of her way to learn it and to express herself in it because she was living in Switzerland, and she felt that she couldn’t really function as a writer without expressing herself in French.
“Of course the difference between her and myself is that she always had an antagonistic relationship with French, even though she went out of her way to learn it and to express herself in it because she was living in Switzerland, and she felt that she couldn’t really function as a writer without expressing herself in French.”
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12 / recommendation
There’s a beautiful exhibit there right now. It’s not that far; I really do recommend it.
“There’s a beautiful exhibit there right now. It’s not that far; I really do recommend it.”
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13 / evaluation
You know, there’re so many books now about grief and the loss of a loved one and what that means.
“You know, there’re so many books now about grief and the loss of a loved one and what that means.”
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14 / preference
If I had that freedom, if I had that ability, I would be such a happy — it would make going to museums even more exciting because I would always be thinking, “Oh well, maybe this, maybe that.
“If I had that freedom, if I had that ability, I would be such a happy — it would make going to museums even more exciting because I would always be thinking, “Oh well, maybe this, maybe that.”
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15 / preference
Yeah, I prefer this kind of cover because to me, there’s a protective quality to the lack of specificity, and the belonging to the series, which is what Europe .
“Yeah, I prefer this kind of cover because to me, there’s a protective quality to the lack of specificity, and the belonging to the series, which is what Europe .”
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16 / evaluation
If I didn’t have this response to literature, then these writers wouldn’t have fed and inspired me the way they did because there would’ve been a “barrier” between their experiences and their times and mine, and that shouldn’t be the case.
“If I didn’t have this response to literature, then these writers wouldn’t have fed and inspired me the way they did because there would’ve been a “barrier” between their experiences and their times and mine, and that shouldn’t be the case.”
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17 / commitment
I was talking to a group of students before this larger conversation about how even in English I started out with that same trepidation. And I don’t want to lose touch with that unease, because I think that’s important.
“I was talking to a group of students before this larger conversation about how even in English I started out with that same trepidation. And I don’t want to lose touch with that unease, because I think that’s important.”
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