Amitava Kumar’s Substack
Amitava KumarNotes and drawings. Dispatches from a writer's life.
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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...
Absolute Bindas
Sarnath Banerjee’s graphic novel, Absolute Jafar, is a quiet work of genius. It starts with drawings of African cheetahs that you recognize from news photos. They have arrived in India in crates from various places in Africa. Upon their arr...
As Accurate as a Sliderule, As Natural as the Smell of Fennel
Isaac Babel (1894-1940)
In my last post I had mentioned that I was on my way to the Rough Notes litfest in Kinderhook, NY. Fun was had. I was on a panel with Francine Prose and Jayne Anne Phillips and at some point during our conversation,...
Gone Fishing. Catch You Later. Life Is Pretty Dry Without A Boat. I’d Rather Be Sailing.
Picture-essay: I tried to draw Dan fishing. The ripples came out all wrong but who cares!
Last night I was putting together my syllabi for the classes that start next week. For my composition class for first-year students, I’m going to tal...
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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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