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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 / 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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02 / 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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- Jhumpa Lahiri
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- Conversations with Tyler