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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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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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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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- Jhumpa Lahiri
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03 / 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.”
- Speaker
- Jhumpa Lahiri
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- Conversations with Tyler