At the beginning of 2022, I published The Blue Book: A Writer’s Journal. A joy to be read by people who had inspired me in my youth. This comment from Pritish Nandy: https://twitter.com/PritishNandy/status/1488780984061669377
It is sad that Bookforum is now gone. In the work I did in 2022, I wrote a piece on cricket for this wonderful literary magazine: https://www.bookforum.com/…/watching-cricket-from-afar…
Earlier in the year, for the same magazine, I was interviewed by Alexander Chee about my novel, A Time Outside This Time (how to write fiction in the face of the fiction that is fake news): https://www.bookforum.com/…/amitava-kumar-s-new-novel…
Working at British Library, after teaching a semester in London for Vassar, I got interested in other writers’ notebooks. A piece I wrote about Shiva Naipaul: https://www.hindustantimes.com/…/essay-shiva-naipaul-s…
No account of 2022 can ignore the ghastly attack on Salman Rushdie. I wrote an open letter to his attacker. The letter was first published in the @IndianExpress and then a longer version in @OprahDaily: https://www.oprahdaily.com/…/a40…/salman-rushdie-legacy/
For @oprahdaily, I also wrote on Joan Didion: https://www.oprahdaily.com/…/a4195…/joan-didion-auction/
At the end of the year, I published a long short-story in the Australian magazine HEAT. My story describes the arrival of fascism in a remote town in India. https://twitter.com/HEAT_journal/status/1603158607289122817
In the new year, I look forward to the publication by Picador UK of the paperback of A Time Outside This Time, described by @newyorker as “a shimmering assault on the zeitgeist.”