Amitava Kumar and Aleksandar Hemon discuss Amitava Kumar's new novel "A Time Outside This Time" published by Alfred Knopf
A blistering novel about fake news, memory, and the ways in which truth gives over to fiction.

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Amitava Kumar is a writer and journalist. He was born in Ara, India, and grew up in the nearby town of Patna, famous for its corruption, crushing poverty, and delicious mangoes. Kumar is the author of the novel Immigrant, Montana, as well as several other books of nonfiction and fiction. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he is Professor of English on the Helen D. Lockwood Chair at Vassar College.

Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and three books of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Love and Obstacles. He was the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship and a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation, and the 2020 Dos Passos Prize. He lives in Chicago.

This event was originally broadcast on October 13, 2021 in the zoom platform and was hosted by City Lights Peter Maravelis.

The event was made possible from the support of the City Lights Foundation.

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