"If some one's visiting india and they ask me for advice, i say, you simply absolutely must go to calcutta," he says. "It's just a city that is like no other." He describes it as 'challenging on the whole host of levels'
Author, teacher, and translator Jhumpa Lahiri joins Tyler for a conversation on identity, Rhode Island, writing as problem solving, reading across languages, the badness of book covers, Elena Ferrante, Bengali culture, the magic of Calcutta, Italian authors, Indian classical music, architectural influences, and much more.
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