Do you think your fiction, with time, is moving in the direction of hardy and becoming darker? I think it's becoming darker. Am, am, a little less bitter sweet andmore just maybe bitter. A lot of people have said to me, i just couldn't read the book,. You know, ah, it was just too heavy, too dark to whatever, whatever. And they miss, they miss...the sort of bitter sweet quality of say, a novel like lowland.
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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