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In academe, we ought to temper our criticism of the idea of self-help because, in a more complex way, it is precisely what we offer our students through our teaching.

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An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and complicities.

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Each employed immigrant has his or her place of work. It is only the taxi driver, forever moving on wheels, who occupies no fixed space. He represents the immigrant condition.

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Bad writing as a conscious goal is liberating for students: They are freed to be creative in a new and different way.

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Ideally, I'd like to write poetry for public performances and prose for a different, more contemplative kind of consumption.

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In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions.

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I have a couple of thick files about things that have gone wrong between people; I ought to write about them in the manner of a thriller. It would finally convince me that I was a real writer.

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A postcolonial writer who has often been credited with mixing the mundane with the magical, and history with fiction, is Salman Rushdie.

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Criticism is, or ought to be, a judicious act.

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I think criticism is often so pallid, so tame. I wish it were more performative.

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Writer

Born: March 17th, 1963

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