Observations of Amitava Kumar
The Brian Lehrer Show | May 8, 2015
Amitava Kumar, a writer and professor of English at Vassar College and the author of Lunch With a Bigot: The Writer in the World (Duke University Press Books, 2015), talks about encounters with people and ideas in this country and India, including a lunch with an ultra-right Hindu politician whose group had put him on a hit list.
→ Forthcoming readings from Lunch with a Bigot:
- Oblong Books, Rhinebeck, May 9, 2015, 7 PM
- Community Bookstore, Brooklyn, May 12, 2015, 7 PM, in conversation with Dani Shapiro
- Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz, May 15, 2015, 7 PM
.@amitavakumar here in the studio today: pic.twitter.com/ym4CZNeRs6
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) May 8, 2015
