Tegor is a towering giant in bengali intellectual history. In your stories, every now and then someone's reading his poems. There's a lot of themes from him that are in your work,. Like home ind the world, this odd mix of tensions between the cosmopolitan and the particular. He was a kind of polymath. He studied many things, worked in different forms.
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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