i prefer, i prefer this kind of cover because to me, there's a protective quality to the lack of specificity andd. The whole piece is a meditation on the idea of wearing a uniform and undressing yourself. I dreamed of being able to wake up united states and just putting on my blue skirt and my white shirt and my black shoes,. And going to school and nobody am commenting on what i was wearing. Am, i mean, i think america represents freedom with a big capital f f., and it always has, and we hope it always will for the good.
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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