"i think what i am responding to is a sense of displacement in those authors, and in almost any author," she says. "If i didn't have this response to literature, then these writers wouldn't have fed and inspired me the way they did."
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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