"Amelia": What becomes a legend most? Oct 26, 2009
Nair -- whose last picture was the Jhumpa Lahiri adaptation -- is a frustrating filmmaker ... This sweet, but not cloying, adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's delicate novel brings us some wonderful moments. (Salon)
Author Heidi Pitlor charms audience Oct 2, 2009
Pitlor, who has worked with authors like Stephen King and Jhumpa Lahiri, talked about her career and how she has advanced to this point in her career. She told the audience about her experience working with homeless and runaway teenagers and her work as a freelance writer, working for 10 years at Houghton Mifflin and eventually becoming the editor of "The Best American Short Stories," a job she "hopes to have until she dies.". (The Daily Campus, CT)
Be a New Yorker: Magazine's festival shows you the way Sep 9, 2009
For us, however, and for an increasing number of out-of-towners, according to the organizers, it has become an annual pilgrimage, a self-imposed cultural retreat attended with thousands of other New Yorker fanatics, one in which we stand in line after line, always reading while waiting, furtively nudging each other that Jhumpa Lahiri is standing right over there, mournfully shaking our heads no, we don't have a ticket to David Remnick's interview with cartoonist Roger Angell - but do you know if... (Herald Online, SC -- Lifestyles)
Leaves and pages turn in the fall books preview Sep 7, 2009
A mammoth work, more than 800 pages long, whose many authors include Junot Daz, Jhumpa Lahiri and Czeslaw Milosz. Blues and Chaos: The Music Writing of Robert Palmer. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
IN MY LIBRARY: BUCK HENRY Jul 20, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009 Last Update: 04:55 AM EDT. hide stories RELATED TOPICS. (New York Post -- Opinions)
San Francisco Chronicle Best-Sellers July 12, 2009 / Jul 13, 2009
UNACCUSTOMED EARTH, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Vintage; 352 pages; $15. 00). (San Francisco Chronicle)
Hawaii's best-sellers Jul 13, 2009
"Unaccustomed Earth" by Jhumpa Lahiri. 4. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Tales of Nigerian outsiders, trapped between two worlds Jul 12, 2009
Like those of Jhumpa Lahiri, whose work bears a notable resemblance to Adichie s, the characters of The Thing Around Your Neck are caught between past and present, original and adopted homelands. Many of them, like Ukamaka in The Shivering and Nkem in the Imitation, are forgotten women, abandoned by their men to American life, and a slow, unconscious acclimation to its foreign ways. (Boston Globe)
Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh shortlisted for award Jun 26, 2009
NEW DELHI: The Vodafone-Crossword Book Awards 2008 shortlist is star-studded -- and finding place are "The Enchantress of Florence" by Salman Rushdie, "Sea of Poppies" by Amitav Ghosh, "Unaccustomed Earth" by Jhumpa Lahiri, "Past Continuous" by Neel Mukherjee and "Escape" by Manjula Padmanabhan. This was announced by a panel comprising publisher-writer Urvashi Butalia, authors Mani Shankar Mukherji and Namita Devidayal and founder of Crosswords Bookstore R Sriram in the capital on Thursday. (India Times)
San Francisco Chronicle Best-Sellers May 10 San Francisco Chronicle Best-Sellers May 10 / May 11, 2009
UNACCUSTOMED EARTH: Stories, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Vintage; 352 pages; $15) ... UNACCUSTOMED EARTH, by Jhumpa Lahiri. (San Francisco Chronicle)
New in paper: Lahiri's 'Unaccustomed Earth' Apr 2, 2009
By Carol Memmott, USA TODAY Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (Vintage, $15, fiction, reprint). "Never before has Lahiri mined so perfectly the secrets of the human heart," USA TODAY said of this collection of stories examining the immigrant experience. (USA Today -- Life)
Two books vie for One Read selection Apr 1, 2009
Voting began Monday on two books The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett and Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri to narrow the field to one selection that will serve to unite the Daniel Boone Regional Library community. These books were selected as part of a process that began in January with a reading panel and more than 100 possibilities. (Fulton Sun, MO)
Fareed Zakaria is India Abroad Person of the Year 2008 Mar 22, 2009
The India Abroad Publishers Award for Special Excellence -- a prize previously won by achievers like astronaut Sunita Williams -- was awarded to novelist Jhumpa Lahiri, who in 2008 published her third work of fiction, a collection of short stories titled Unaccustomed Earth that in unprecedented fashion debuted at the top of the prestigious New York Times bestseller lists. The event, emceed by Columbia Journalism School Professor Sreenath Sreenivasan, came to a fitting conclusion when Fareed... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Minal Hajratwala explores Indian diaspora Mar 19, 2009
Jhumpa Lahiri hadn't won a Pulitzer Prize for her tales of South Asians, "The Interpreter of Maladies," Dr. Sanjay Gupta hadn't been offered (and declined) the post of U.S. surgeon general and model/actress Aishwarya Rai wasn't an international ambassador for L'Oreal cosmetics. When Hajratwala was growing up and said she was Indian, people would ask, "Which tribe?" It was in the late '90s, she says, that she noticed "how South Asian-ness in the United States had shifted from this sort of obscure... (San Francisco Chronicle)
'The Prayer Room,' by Shanthi Sekaran Mar 6, 2009
This question may sound a bit churlish, but sometimes it's a reviewer's duty to ask churlish questions: With writers like Jhumpa Lahiri, Bharati Mukherjee and Chitra Divakaruni among us, do we really need yet another novel about culture clash in the Indian diaspora ... The Prayer Room,' by Shanthi Sekaran Articles The Prayer Room By Shanthi Sekaran (MacAdam/Cage; 375 pages; $25) This question may sound a bit churlish, but sometimes it's a reviewer's duty to ask churlish questions: With writers... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Phish eyes bootleg ban Mar 5, 2009
Wolff won the Story Prize yesterday for the collection "Our Story Begins." The finalists - Jhumpa Lahiri, for "Unaccustomed Earth," and Joe Meno for "Demons in the Spring" - each received $5,000. (AP). (Boston Globe)
'Slumdog' clears path for all things Indian Mar 4, 2009
Golf fans follow Vijay Singh, a Fijian of Indian descent, lifestyle junkies follow Deepak Chopra, and readers snatch up books by the likes of Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Jhumpa Lahiri. "We're trying to bridge the gap between East and West, and there's a natural musical and creative synergy between Western music and classic Indian music," especially the rhythmic Bhangra genre that blends well with hip-hop, says Ted Chung, chairman of the Cashmere Agency, a Los Angeles company that brought... (USA Today -- Life)
Regional shortlists for Commonwealth Writers' Prize announced Feb 20, 2009
There are some big names on the list, including Damon Galgut, Jhumpa Lahiri, Salman Rushdie, and 2008 Booker winner Aravind Adiga. The Canadian/Caribbean region is dominated by Canadian writers, with only one of the dozen shortlisted authors hailing from the Caribbean. (Canada.com)
Rushdie and Hensher face off for Commonwealth prize Feb 19, 2009
The other titles shortlisted for the 1,000 best book from Europe and south Asia award are an eclectic mix, from Chris Cleave's The Other Hand, the story of a 16-year-old Nigerian girl, to Jhumpa Lahiri's collection of migrant short stories Unaccustomed Earth ... "What distinguished this year's entries was a preponderance of well-established authors including Salman Rushdie, Philip Hensher, Shashi Deshpande and Jhumpa Lahiri in the best book category and some very talented new voices such as... (guardian.co.uk)
Sure, it's GOOP, but not that bad Feb 17, 2009
Her friends are enlisted to share ideas in each section, and while it has been viewed as risible that she calls Madonna and Christy Turlington literary-minded, her book selections this week are not of the Eckhart Tolle and Sophie Kinsella variety, but eclectic, sombre choices, including work by Zora Neale Hurston, Leo Tolstoy, Jhumpa Lahiri and David Wroblewski. Her thoughts on fashion are as good as anything I have seen in any magazine better, in truth, as she is a genuine style paragon. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
San Francisco Chronicle Best-Sellers Feb. 15 / Feb 16, 2009
UNACCUSTOMED EARTH, Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf; 352 pages; $25): The latest collection of short stories by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Interpreter of Maladies.". 8. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Slumdog Paradox Feb 12, 2009
Salman Rushdie and Jhumpa Lahiri occupy a similarly exalted place in fiction. To sum up, it seems unlikely that a story set in the slums of Manila or Jakarta would find nearly as large an audience in Boston or Baton Rouge. (YaleGlobal Online Magazine, CT)
