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Writer. My Beloved Life (Knopf, 2024). Bylines: Granta, Harper's, New Yorker, NYT. Vassar prof. Guggenheim, Cullman Center Fellow. http://amitava.bsky.social

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Sometimes the book you write finds the right reader. Here is James Wood on my novel in the New Yorker magazine. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…


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Why We Did Not Allow Jemimah Rodrigues the Feeling of Triumph She Deserved @amitavakumar thewire.in/communalism/je…


Out on a walk listening to @brickliterary podcast: Sheila Heti and Vivian Gornick in conversation podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bri…

amitavakumar's tweet image. Out on a walk listening to @brickliterary podcast: Sheila Heti and Vivian Gornick in conversation podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bri…

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From his first encounter with the Berg Collection @nypl during his Fellowship orientation, 2023-24 @CullmanNYPL Fellow @amitavakumar has found a wealth of material and inspiration in its archives. Learn more about his favorite recent discoveries: nypl.org/blog/2025/08/0…


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In the visual narrative special issue of our journal, On Eating, @amitavakumar writes about eating/savouring Bhindi. @SumanaSiliguri & I hope you will read & share with those interested - oneating.in/bhindi/


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#Bookmarks | "Textbooks are often unimaginative, boring things. And they are anathema to any notion of delight that reading affords. And we have mastered this fatal art in India." @amitavakumar spoke to @MaqboolMajid. frontline.thehindu.com/columns/amitav…


Thank you, @MaqboolMajid. And to @frontline_india for carrying the interview. 🙏🏽

For this Sunday’s column, I interviewed one of my favourite Indian writers, @amitavakumar, on his reading life: Many thanks to @frontline_india Editor Vaishna Roy (@vaishnaroy) and Jinoy Jose P ( @jinoyjoseph) for their support and trust. More ahead! frontline.thehindu.com/columns/amitav…



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"I don’t want to have the cosmopolitan ease of someone at ease everywhere; I’d rather embrace something more difficult, of being at home nowhere," says author @amitavakumar in talks with Sayari Debnath. scroll.in/article/108295…


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It's our 2nd year of turning the backyard into a wildflower and insect oasis. It has vastly surpassed our expectations. I'm sharing this to encourage others to follow suit--it's such a fun, easy, and unknown solution to the question of how to replace a muddy, gloomy lawn.

JosephONeillx's tweet image. It's our 2nd year of turning the backyard into a wildflower and insect oasis. It has vastly surpassed our expectations. I'm sharing this to encourage others to follow suit--it's such a fun, easy, and unknown solution to the question of how to replace a muddy, gloomy lawn.

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