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Anita Desai knows from cruel experience about the horrors of competing for big literary awards. Three times the renowned Indian novelist has been a finalist for the MAN Booker Prize for fiction, and three times she's failed to win it. But last week, says Desai, the stress was worse than ever?because this time, the finalist was her daughter Kiran. Roused by her sister-in-law at 5 a.m. on Oct. 11, Anita turned on the television to see that Kiran, at age 35, had become the youngest woman ever to win the Booker. "I wanted it so much...
...said that while she enjoyed writing stories as a child and has been involved in journalism since her high school days in Bethesda, Md., she found her footing as a fiction writer at Harvard...
Ganeshananthan, whose second book is still in progress, also said that her journalistic background helped her in her first foray into fiction...
...even with a fiction deal inked, Ganeshananthan isn’t letting her journalistic talents go to waste. She’s now in her first year at the Columbia University Graduate Journalism School...
...from House of Mirth to Lolita to White Noise. Anything Matthew Kaiser is teaching is always worth a semester (or five) as well; this time it’s English 154 “19th Century English Poetry” and English 90yx “Gay and Lesbian Fiction...