Ann Tashi Slater in Conversation with Amitava Kumar
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In her latest interview about bardo and the art of living, Ann Tashi Slater ’84 talked with Amitava Kumar about the power of our personal and collective stories, how he has come to terms with his father’s death, and art as a site of both mourning and hope. Born in 1963 in Ara, India, Kumar is a novelist and a poet, a memoirist and a journalist. His novels include My Beloved Life (2024) and Immigrant, Montana (2018), a New Yorker and New York Times book of the year; among his nonfiction books are Every Day I Write the Book (2020), A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb: A Writer’s Report on the Global War on Terror (2010), and Husband of a Fanatic (2004). He is the Helen D. Lockwood Professor of English at Vassar College.