552 Writing after Rushdie (with Shilpi Suneja)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Jacke talks to novelist Shilpi Suneja about her childhood in India, her discovery of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, and her new novel House of Caravans, which offers its own fresh look at Indian Independence and its aftermath. Shilpi Suneja is the author of House of Caravans. Born in India, her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in Guernica, McSweeney’s, Cognoscenti, and the Michigan Quarterly Review. Her writing has been supported by a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship, a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship, a Grub Street Novel Incubator Scholarship, and she was the Desai fellow at the Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat. She holds an MA in English from New York University and an MFA in creative writing from Boston University, where she was awarded the Saul Bellow Prize. She lives in Cambridge, MA. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.4	Hello.
1:11.4	In 1981, an Indian British man was making his bones at the advertising agency Ogilvy
1:16.9	in Mathur, coming up with slogans like naughty but nice, applied to some cream cakes,
1:23.7	and that'll do nicely, which helped American Express sell their services.
1:29.4	He invented the word irresistible.
1:32.0	Oh, and he also wrote a book called Midnight's Children, which became a bestseller and launched
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