Poetry professor becomes terror suspect
A poetry professor of Indian extraction recycles old manuscripts at the college where he teaches, and becomes an object of suspicion. (Thanks, Max.)
A poetry professor of Indian extraction recycles old manuscripts at the college where he teaches, and becomes an object of suspicion. (Thanks, Max.)
Having waited the promised two decades, Emory University will unseal its collection of Flannery O’Connor’s correspondence with a longtime friend.
Video highlights from PEN’s “Writers on the Environment” event (with Collins, Franzen, Isegawa, Iyer, Mak, Marilynne Robinson, Roxana Robinson, Rushdie, Shteyngart, Teller, & Whitehead) are up.
Amitava Kumar sends word that he’ll be reading from Bombay-London-New York for his “Post-Colonial Writing in a Globalized World” talk with Ilija Trojanow at the Goethe-Institut tonight. The section he has in mind, which I read while preparing for the Branding & Freedom in the Market Economy event last month, considers representations of Ghandi. I’m posting it in context here . . .