Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Namesake" Story aired: Wednesday, October 01, 2003
Author Jhumpa Lahiri's book "The Namesake" is already on the New York Times Bestseller list, only three weeks after it reached bookstores. Not bad, for a first novel.
Lahiri's first book, the short story collection "Interpreter of Maladies," won the Pulitzer Prize, which is a nice wind in the sails for any author's next book. Such success brings a level of literary celebrity, but it also creates unusually high expectations. That is what Jhumpa Lahiri is dealing with right now as she embarks on a nationwide book tour for "The Namesake."
She recently turned up in Cambridge, Massachusetts for a reading. More than 600 people turned up to a sell-out crowd.
Here and Now producer April Peavey plunged into the throng in Cambridge and spoke with Jhumpa Lahiri about riding her second wave of fame around her new book "The Namesake."
Guests:
Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "The Namesake" and "Interpreter of Maladies."
