Lunch With a Bigot: The Writer in the World
A Language, Essays, Nonfiction book. I am, I suspect, not the audience for Lunch With a Bigot. I know very little about India - its...
To be a writer, Amitava Kumar says, is to be an observer. The twenty-six essays in Lunch With a Bigot are Kumar's observations of the world put into words. A mix of memoir, reportage and criticism, the essays include encounters with writers Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, discussions on the craft of writing, and a portrait of the struggles of a Bollywood actor. The title-essay is Kumar's account of his...
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I am, I suspect, not the audience for Lunch With a Bigot. I know very little about India - its internal politics, its literary figures, even its Bollywood superstars. Mostly I was interested in reading another book by Kumar, whose A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb is one of the most awkwardly titled but also the... This book was a solid three stars for me most of the way through. The essays ranged a bit in quality, and Kumar absolutely shined when he turned his intellect outward. His discussion with Arudhati Roy, the boxer on the flight, and the essays on Kashmir were strong and hit hard. His contemplations on writing tended to be more hit and... This was originally published at The Scrying Orb.Reading and writing are a major topic of exploration in these essays. Kumar is an advocate of writing as an expression of the real, a way to decipher and interpret the everyday politics, identity, culture the sacred role of fiction in making palpable these essential things. The well known...
