On Monday, March 31 at 5:30pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Amitava Kumar will discuss and read from his work. Introduced and moderated by John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of the Humanities and director of the Written Arts Program Dinaw Mengestu, this event is free and open to the public. 

Amitava Kumar is the author of several books of nonfiction and four novels. His novel Immigrant, Montana was on the best of the year lists at The New Yorker, The New York Times, and President Obama’s list of favorite books of 2018. His latest novel, My Beloved Life, was described by James Wood in The New Yorker magazine as “beautiful, truthful fiction.” Kumar’s work has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s, BRICK, Guernica, The Nation and several other publications. He has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and a Cullman Center fellowship at the New York Public Library.

This event is part of the Center for Ethics and Writing’s semester long symposium Writing the Present.