Subseries I.C. Articles and Essays

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{"value"=>"<p>This subseries, dating from a 1995 article in <span class=\"title\">The Statesman</span> about Ashapurna Debi's oeuvre, to the afterword for Alessandro Manzoni's <span class=\"title\">The Betrothed</span> in 2022, chronicles Lahiri's publishing process for her standalone work, anthology pieces, reviews, and short fiction published in literary journals. Short fiction pieces in this subseries include works that would later be included in story collections <span class=\"title\">Interpreter of Maladies</span> or <span class=\"title\">Unaccustomed Earth</span>. A small amount of relevant correspondence and supplementary research materials are also present in this subseries.</p> <p>Drafts, galley proofs, and final revisions comprise the bulk of this subseries. Works were published in <span class=\"title\">Food & Wine</span>, <span class=\"title\">Allure</span>, <span class=\"title\">The New Yorker</span>, <span class=\"title\">Semicerchio</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Tuttolibri</span>. Numerous drafts of articles written for <span class=\"title\">D di Repubblica</span>, the weekly women's supplement of Italian newspaper <span class=\"title\">Repubblica</span>, are also present. Many materials feature extensive autograph annotations by Lahiri and editors.</p> <p>Also present are multiple annotated drafts, galley prints, proofs, and related ephemera of contributions by Lahiri in 2008's <span class=\"title\">State by State</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Suspension of Time: Reflections on Simon Dinnerstein and The Fulbright Triptych</span> in 2011, and <span class=\"title\">The Book of Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses</span> in 2022.</p> <p>This subseries holds annotated drafts of introductions and afterwords for several works, including photographer Xavier Zimardo's <span class=\"title\">India Holy Song</span>; the <span class=\"title\">New York Book Review</span>'s 2009 Mavis Gallant anthology, <span class=\"title\">The Cost of Living</span>; and <span class=\"title\">Brahma's Weapon</span> by Ashapurna Debi in 2013.</p>"}

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{"value"=>"<p>Arranged chronologically. Undated materials are held at the end of the subseries.</p>"}

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1990

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1990

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2022

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1990

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2022

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1. "The Home is the World" -- On Ashapurna Debi
2. Anandabazar Patrika Article
3. Computer Typescript Drafts, Shankpainter 38
4. "A Temporary Matter" from The Genuine Article: Volume III
5. Old and Unfinished Typescript Drafts
6. "Indian Takeout" from Food & Wine
7. "Fragrance Quest" from Allure
8. Foreword to India Holy Song, by Xavier Zimardo
9. "To Heaven Without Dying"
10. "Nobody's Business" from The New Yorker
11. Introduction to The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
12. "Hell-Heaven" from The New Yorker
13. "The Long Way Home" from The New Yorker
14. Untitled Essay on Literary Influences
15. Introduction to Malgudi Days, by R. K. Narayan
16. "My Two Lives" from Newsweek
17. "Once in a Lifetime" from The New Yorker
18. "Year's End" from The New Yorker
19. "Alberto de Lacerda: A Remembrance"
20. "Rhode Island" from State By State
21. Introduction to The Cost of Living, by Mavis Gallant
22. "Useless Chaos Is What Fiction Is About" in Granta
23. "Note to Myself: Take the Kitchen" from The New Yorker
24. "Rice" from The New Yorker
25. "The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown"
26. Going Ashore Galley Proof
27. Untitled Essay on Park Slope
28. "Trading Stories" in The New Yorker
29. "The Space Between the Pictures" from The Suspension of Time: Reflections on Simon Dinnerstein and The Fulbright Triptych
30. Introduction for Michael Ondjaate
31. Typescript Drafts of "My Life's Sentences" from The New Yorker
32. Introduction to Brahma's Weapon by Ashapurna Debi
33. Vincitori e Vinti: Le Conversazioni, Scrittori a Confronto
34. "La Veduta/The View" from Semicerchio
35. "Reticenza: Dante e le lacune in "Isis" di Bob Dylan"
36. Elogio all'Eco: Un riflessione sul senso del tradurre
37. Beyond Babylon by Igiaba Scego Review
38. Lettora all'Italia
39. Andrà tutto bene: Gli scrittori al tempo della quarantena
40. Introduzione "Lo Straniero," Nuovi Argomenti
41. "Lexione Diario per Molly Bloom"
42. Per Tuttolibri
43. "Quaestio de Centauro:" una lezione sillabario Circolo dei lettori
44. "Thirty-three Thoughts on Dante" from The Divine Comedy, translated by Robin Kirkpatrick
45. "Self translation: Where I find myself" from World Without Borders
46. "Nausicaa" from The Book of Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses
47. Afterword to The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni, translated by Michael F. Moore
48. "C'era una donna, una traduttrice..."
49. Desiderio: Quattro Spunti
50. "Diaro"
51. Frederika Randall, My Cold War
52. "Milestone: Three Entries for a London Notebook"
53. "La Parabola"
54. "Penombra"
55. "Portrait of a Young Man"
56. "Postfazione"
57. "Santa Maria"
58. "Tre Ultime Metafore"
59. "La Veduta (Manto)"
60. "Vincitori e Vinti"
61. D di Repubblica [16/1]
62. Unidentified Biography
63. Untitled Drafts
64. Notebooks
65. Bound Story Drafts