Amitava Kumar’s Substack
Amitava KumarNotes and drawings. Dispatches from a writer's life.
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Pencil Marks on the Page
In February 1991, when Thomas Beller was only 25, he published a short-story in the New Yorker titled “A Different Kind of Imperfection.” A few years earlier, Beller had graduated from Vassar College; when the story came out, he was an MFA...
Palo Alto Altu Faltu
I am just back from the South Asian Literature & Art Festival in Palo Alto. This photograph, where you see me discoursing with Vikram Chandra and Manil Suri, appeared on my phone mid-session. A friend in Delhi had sent it; he had received i...
Weinberger at Vassar
Paris Review has a series called “Making of a Poem” in which a poet whose work has appeared in its pages talks about their process, how they came to write that poem, their influences, the choice of the title, etc. The magazine wanted to dis...
A Time Outside This Time
The student protests in India over the past few months have brought new energy into our political commons. In solidarity with those who demand change, I’m sharing a trailer my friends and I had put together when, back in 2021, my novel A Ti...
Water
It’s publication day for Caleb Stein’s wonderful book, Down by the Hudson. His photographs from this project (a project conducted over a decade at a waterhole near where I live in Poughkeepsie) are on view at the Palo Gallery from September...
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Writer. Novels include Immigrant, Montana (Knopf, 2018); A Time Outside This Time (Knopf, 2021); My Beloved Life (Knopf, 2024). Bylines: Granta, Harper's, New Yorker, NYT. Vassar prof. Guggenheim, Cullman Center Fellow.
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