# Amit Chaudhuri

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Introducing ‘Who’s afraid of realism?’

What’s the difference between realism and the real? James Wood looks at novels and short stories from Flaubert and Dostoevsky up to contemporary writers including Amit Chaudhuri and Gwendoline Riley as he examines the uncertain line between artifice and artificiality and the techniques and effects …

181. The Language of Incompleteness -- Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri joins me to discuss his new collection of essays, Incompleteness. In these essays and his novels, Amit is constantly searching for new language that will acknowledge the instability and flux of the world around us. It is intellectual anarchy of the highest order, as well as artistica…

Amit Chaudhuri on Post-Realist Fiction: Why Realism Is No Longer an Adequate Novelistic Form for Describing the World

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Amit Chaudhuri, author of Sojourn. Amit Chaudhuri is a nov…

Lisa Jewell & Aditya Chakrabortty

Author Lisa Jewell and economics commentator Aditya Chakrabortty join Harriett Gilbert to talk about their favourite books by Amit Chaudhuri, Liz Nugent and Rose Tremain. Afternoon Raag by Amit Chaudhuri Publisher: Oneworld Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent Publisher: Penguin Rosie: Scenes from a V…

Muses Over Mumbai: Murzban Shroff Captures The City's Social Fabric

Murzban Shroff is a Mumbai-based writer whose fiction has appeared in over 75 literary journals across the USA and UK, including The Gettysburg Review, The Minnesota Review, The Saturday Evening Post, The Chicago Tribune, Blitmag, and World Literature Today. A recipient of multiple literary awards …

Free Thinking 2013 - Whose Strife

Whose Strife Is It Anyway? Amit Chaudhuri, Gaiutra Bahadur and Aamer Ahmed Khan discuss depictions of the powerless in fiction and factual reporting with Rana Mitter. Chaudhuri has explored life in Calcutta in many of his novels and essays; Badhadur's book Coolie Woman: The Odyssesy of Indenture ta…

Paris, Deconstructed: Amit Chaudhuri’s Château Rouge

Amit Chaudhuri joins Adam Biles to discuss his new novel Chateau Rouge, set not in the postcard Paris of Hemingway and Midnight in Paris, but in the neighbourhood around Gare du Nord — a Paris that resists being known, curated, or confirmed. Chaudhuri talks about writing against the "already known"…

Zoë de Givenchy on the art of hosting. Plus: Photography in Japan and France

We meet designer Zoë de Givenchy, look at a new exhibit on Japanese photography through the eyes of women, visit Rencontres d’Arles for its annual photography festival and meet author Amit Chaudhuri. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

197. Seeing Paris Behind the Postcard -- Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri rejoins me to discuss his new novel/memoir/essay, Chateau Rouge. The book is about a writer who finds himself in a region of Paris, Chateau Rouge, filled with immigrants and their small business hustles, not cafes and patisseries. Shocked by how different Chateau Rouge is from the Pa…

How to write when everything’s in flux

Every story, they say, needs a beginning, a middle and an end; every story needs a setting. What if that isn’t true? Can you write when everything is in flux, when you are unmoored from places, and when the time is out of joint? Tanjil Rashid is joined by Amit Chaudhuri, a singer, composer, poet, …