Word: lahiri
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...Jhumpa Lahiri's stories reveal their intentions with a stately slowness that is starting to seem distinctly 20th century. Her writing is completely free of humor or cleverness. It's almost totally devoid of narrative suspense. In the title story of her new collection, UNACCUSTOMED EARTH (Knopf; 333 pages), a widowed man comes to visit his daughter; their family is Indian, but she married an American. Will the father move in with them? Will he tell his daughter that he has a new lover? Lahiri (who won a Pulitzer for Interpreter of Maladies) gives us nearly 60 pages of precisely...
...want you to know that they enjoy Beethoven. Harvard students want you to know that they enjoy Snow Patrol. Yale students sure love their long important novels by Dostoevsky, Nabokov, or Tolkien. Harvard students sure love their interesting modern novels by people with names like Milan Kundera and Jhumpa Lahiri. Yalies enjoy history and philosophy and put Tolkien books and movies on their profiles. Harvardians enjoy Dancing, Art, and Oscar-winning movies about race. Yale students want to impress you with what they’re doing. Harvard students want to impress you with how cool they look while doing...
...title.Actor Kal Penn, who plays Gogol, also credits a certain work of art with inspiring a radical career change. The work is not anything by written Gogol, who Penn had never read before the movie, nor is it the the 2003 novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri that served as inspiration for the film.Rather, it’s the sophomoric type of work that many think Penn eschewed with “The Namesake”: 2004’s “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle,” where Penn plays a prospective...
...other words, now that Big Money is onboard, hedge funds are playing it safer. "Historically, the people who were giants of the industry were unusual, dynamic and hard to classify," says Yasho Lahiri, a partner at law firm Baker Botts in New York City, who represents hedge funds and investors. "Today people want repeatable process...
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