He lives in los angeles. Please join here and giving him a huge round of applause while he comes out and and then talks about his book. Thanks, ali. Thanks for coming out of retirement for this event. And thank you all for being here. Thanks to skylight so much having me i moved to l. A. A little over a year ago and you know, people me right away. This was the bookstore you got to come to. So here i so thanks for being here with me. I think what im to do is im going to read just a little excerpt from the first chapter, the opening the first chapter, which is the first part that i wrote for this book was a sort of the scene that sets the stage the rest of the book. So im going to read a short excerpt that, and then im going to talk a little bit about just the book itself, themes behind the book, how i came to write it, why i wanted to write it, and then ill read another little short. I promised the red shorts and. Then well yeah, have audience q a. All right, lets get it. So the name of
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Ah, this is out his hair and these other top stories now the man suspected of attacking ortho, summon, rusty has been charged with attempted murder. Rusty is on a ventilator of the heavy matar, allegedly stabbed him multiple time that a literary event in new york state on friday. And cherry is a novelist, poet and literary critic, he explains the significance behind rest his career so far. I admire his work and i had my him deeply. And what is wonderful about dress is he can make room for a great deal of diversity as far as what she likes in the arts. In writing is concerned, much, much greater diversity, a kind of diversity that marks out that true artist can writer in comparison to some visit myers. So i would say that he has his, his kind of presence has been transformative for, for india fiction for indian fiction. And for fiction generally, but there are things about his writing and about him which, which i was acknowledging, which we still havent fully understood and acknowledge