Only Disconnect
SOURCE: The unedited version of an interview that ran in Harper’s, January 21, 2000 Akash Kapur (Pondicherry, India): “Can you hear me? V. S. Naipaul (The Surrey Hotel in New York): “Yes, I can hear you. Can you hear me?” AK: “Yes. Were you able to look at the questions? Did they fax them to […]
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Between Father and Son
SOURCE: Salon.com, Jan. 18, 2000 BETWEEN FATHER AND SON: FAMILY LETTERSBy V. S. Naipaul.285 pages:Alfred A. Knopf. Few writers have offended their readers as regularly as V.S. Naipaul has. From his first travel book, which disparaged the West Indies as a “dot on the map” where “nothing was created,” to his most recent, in […]