Articles by Ujala Sehgal
October 28, 2011
Third Annual Asian American Literary Festival 0
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is holding the third annual Page Turner: Asian American Literary Festival tomorrow, October 29th in Brooklyn. There you’ll find: Junot Díaz, Amitava Kumar, Min Jin Lee, Jayne Anne Phillips, Granta editor John Freeman, two stand-up comedians, five NBA finalists, seven Guggenheim Fellows, and a Korean taco truck.
September 29, 2011
Asian American Literary Review Launch Party 0
The Asian American Literary Review is releasing their Special Issue Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of September 11 with a launch party this Friday at 7pm in downtown New York at Alwan for the Arts. The 350-page(!) issue has interviews, essays, and first person testimony on 9/11 by South/Asian and Arab American contributors — including Kazim [...]
September 17, 2011
Parul Sehgal in NYTBR 0
“What does it mean to be rich in a poor country? Or to possess power that you don’t want? Why have the ‘educated classes’ in India and Pakistan abdicated their social responsibilities?” Parul Sehgal reviews Aatish Taseer’s Noon for The New York Times.
April 4, 2011
The Tournament of Books Declares a Winner! 0
The Tournament of Books declares a winner! It was down to two in the last round: Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom (called “big, messy, flawed, enraging, and engrossing” by C. Max Magee, one of the final round judges) and Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad (which “ached with feeling and tension…”) Find out who won [...]
March 22, 2011
Roberto Bolaño in the NYRB Blog 0
“The books that I remember best are the ones I stole in Mexico City, between the ages of sixteen and nineteen, and the ones I bought in Chile when I was twenty, during the first few months of the coup.” The New York Review of Books Blog posts an essay by — you guessed it [...]
March 5, 2011
In Which Samuel Beckett Didn’t Intend To Be A Writer 0
“He was a great exploiter.” From This Recording, Samuel Beckett’s recollections of James Joyce, in his own words.
