{"id":2947,"date":"2006-02-01T18:13:38","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T23:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=2947"},"modified":"2006-02-01T16:46:43","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T21:46:43","slug":"today_kiran_des","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/01\/today_kiran_des\/","title":{"rendered":"TODAY: Kiran Desai reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center>SAJA and the Rubin Museum of Art present <br \/>Kiran Desai reading from <em><a title=\"'The Inheritance of Loss' (January 03, 2006)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/002804.html\" target=_blank><em>The Inheritance of Loss<\/em><\/a><\/em><br \/><font style=\"background-color: #ffd2bd\">Today, Wednesday, February 1 at 7pm<br \/><\/font>(how&#8217;s that for notice?)<br \/><br \/>Rubin Museum of Art<br \/>150 West 17th St. between 6th\/7th Aves., Manhattan [<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=150+W+17th+St,+New+York,+NY\">map<\/a>]<br \/>$11 \/ $5 SAJA members<\/center>\n<center>(includes admission to the museum of Himalayan art)<\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>The novel wears the tricolor on its sleeve and savages wealthy immigrant privilege:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>The Indian student bringing back a bright blonde, pretending it was nothing, trying to be easy, but every molecule tense and self-conscious: &#8220;Come on, yaar, love has no color&#8230;&#8221; He had <em>just happened to stumble into the stereotype;<\/em> he was the genuine thing that <em>just happened to be the clich\u00c3\u00a9&#8230;<\/em>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Behind him a pair of Indian girls made vomity faces.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>And yet she lives in&#8230; <img src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/smile.gif\" align=absMiddle border=0><\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971. Educated in India, England, and the United States, she received her MFA from Columbia. She lives in Brooklyn.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><span class=\"related-posts-heading\">Related posts:<\/span> <span class=\"related-posts\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/002931.html\"><span class=\"related-posts-title\">The tree groom<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/002804.html\"><span class=\"related-posts-title\">&#8216;The Inheritance of Loss&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAJA and the Rubin Museum of Art present Kiran Desai reading from The Inheritance of LossToday, Wednesday, February 1 at 7pm(how&#8217;s that for notice?)Rubin Museum of Art150 West 17th St. between 6th\/7th Aves., Manhattan [map]$11 \/ $5 SAJA members (includes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/01\/today_kiran_des\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}