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    Jonathan Franzen at the PEN World Voices Festival

    Jonathan Franzen at the PEN World Voices Festival

    The last week of April means two things in New York: inclement weather and the wonderful PEN World Voices Festival. There's an entire week of diverse programming with celebrated authors from all corners of the globe, but the audience favorite would have to be the Moth storytelling night. This year Jonathan Franzen shared an autobiographical anecdote about the dangers of using your life in your writing:

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  • 03.15.11
    Editor & Author: Eric Chinski and Rahul Bhattacharya

    Editor & Author: Eric Chinski and Rahul Bhattacharya

    Rahul Bhattacharya, who lives in New Delhi, is the author of Pundits from Pakistan, a book of reportage, and The Sly Company of People Who Care, a first novel to be published by FSG in May. He answers some questions about the desire to escape home, the visceral energy of Creole, and V.S Naipaul. -Eric Chinski, Editor in Chief Chinski: Your first book was a work of reportage on the India-Pakistan cricket rivalry. Why did you decide to turn next to writing your first novel? Rahul Bhattacharya: I didn’t, actually. The form came afterward, at the moment of writing. What I was responding to was the impulse to get away. It’s a terribly seductive impulse: What are the consequences? In part I was getting away from writing about cricket as well. But I’m grateful to cricket-writing, without which I may not ever have had a chance to visit the Caribbean.

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