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@Electrostani Really enjoyed All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews.

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On a more sincere note, very happy to see @John_Birdsall's amazing The Man Who Ate Too Much Nominated. But puzzled to see Mayukh Sen's Taste Makers shut out of the nominations.

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The first two visitors did reprise their previous appearances (@senatormayukh to discuss Taste Makers; John Birdsall to discuss The Man Who Ate Too Much). Today we had a debut: the almighty @ExcuseMyFly who had us thinking, laughing and generally in the palm of her hand.

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Here is the end of a brief talk I gave at an event on The Satanic Verses in 2013: I would like to end elliptically, in the form of a parable perhaps, by paraphrasing an episode in one of the great novels of the first decade of the 21st century, Zadie Smith’s White Teeth. 1/n

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I’m planning to read Michelle Cliff’s essay, “If I Could Write This In Fire I Would Write This In Fire” again. “Their goddam kings and their goddam queens.” https://t.co/EoJGtCFjzn

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Here is the end of a brief talk I gave at an event on The Satanic Verses in 2013: I would like to end elliptically, in the form of a parable perhaps, by paraphrasing an episode in one of the great novels of the first decade of the 21st century, Zadie Smith’s White Teeth. 1/n

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We’re going to Italy this summer. To help with itineraries, I got the Rick Steves Italy book. The main thing I’ve gathered from it so far is that we are apparently going to be scammed, pickpocketed and robbed at least a few times every day. I wonder what his India books say…

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Nine years ago today. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the publication of The Satanic Verses in 2013, the college invited Salman Rushdie to give a talk (a kick-off to a year's worth of events on censorship). The next day he and I were "in conversation", as they say. https://t.co/TgxNrJZ3IC

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Today we had the great pleasure of welcoming Tien Nguyen--a first-time visitor--to discuss the process of writing The Red Boat Fish Sauce Cookbook and the dynamics of food writing in general.

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The missus and the younger boy are making an apple pie together in the kitchen. I contributed the recipe (from Dorie Greenspan's Baking From My Home To Yours) but am now leaving the house so that my helpful critique of their work doesn't result in a broken home.