Amit Chaudhuri - "Incompleteness"
Schedule
Tue, 02 Dec, 2025 at 04:00 pm
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5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60637 | Chicago, IL
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Amit Chaudhuri will discuss his new book "Incompleteness". A Q&A and book signing will follow the discussion. At the Co-op
About the Book: A remarkable prose stylist and keen innovator of literary form, Amit Chaudhuri is one of the most singular voices in contemporary literature whose essays and fiction defy categorization and display a sensibility uniquely his own.
"Incompleteness" gathers some of Chaudhuri’s best essays and criticism from more than two decades. In these pieces, Chaudhuri turns his mind to everything from Rabindranath Tagore and Joni Mitchell to the troubles with Indian modernity, from the humble yet delicious snack mix chanachur to globalization’s appropriation of narrative storytelling over poetic incompleteness.
Over the past few years, NYRB Classics has been making sure Chaudhuri's novels remain in print and in the fall of 2025 will publish new editions of "A New World" and "The Immortals" (with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra).
About the Author: Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist, essayist, poet, and musician. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in Calcutta and the United Kingdom. He is the author the novels "A Strange and Sublime Address", "Afternoon Raag", "Freedom Song", "A New World", "The Immortals", "Friend of My Youth", and "Sojourn"; works of non-fiction, including "Finding the Raga", which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; and four volumes of poetry, including "Sweet Shop: New and Selected Poems: 1985–2023"—all published by New York Review Books. Formerly a professor of contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia, Chaudhuri is now a professor of creative writing and the director of the Centre for the Creative and the Critical at Ashoka University, as well as the editor of www.literaryactivism.com. He has been awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the Indian government’s Sahitya Akademi Award.
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