
Jhumpa Lahiri on Writing, Translation, and Crossing Between Cultures (Live at Mason)
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The Immigrant Experience
i'm wondering to what extent have you spoken to your parents about the joys and challenges of the immigrant experience, or was that something that you more so inferred from your own observations? Do you think compared to when you a beg a begann writing, do you feel more inhibited or un uninhabited as an author now? And what brings that about? While writing always scares me and midates me. i think if i'd ever stopped feeling that, i probably shouldn't write any more.
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