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Book Review—Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Posted in Book Reviews, Books on May 15th, 2008

Well the first “pick my book” event is finally over now that I’ve finished the book and am reviewing it. Overall, there are some things I would’ve done differently: make the voting easier (with a poll instead of in the comments) and maybe picking books that were better known. But oh well. It was fun [...]

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Jhumpa Lahiri, David Foster Wallace, and Junot Diaz

Posted in Books, Writing on May 14th, 2008

So I recently finished Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies (which was chosen by my readers) and I loved it. So I’m two for two with her after also loving The Namesake. So I was doing some reading about her and found a nice piece on Time about her.
They compare and contrast her with two other [...]

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