BY EdySutio
HOME: Brooklyn is
heterogeneous in wonderful and disturbing ways, which makes it a fascinating
place to be a writer. Rich and poor people live in close proximity. It’s also
culturally diverse in the extreme. BROOKYLN
OR…? I’d love to live in Mumbai. I stayed there for a few months years ago.
I’ve never walked around a city that varies so much by neighborhood. I like the
mash-up of architectural styles, and the feeling that you’re in a place where
history runs very deep, but which is also so dramatically modern. SLICE OF LIFE: I’m a little embarrassed
about how stimulating travel is for me as a writer: I feel I ought to be able
to find inspiration at home. What I love
about going somewhere very different, whether nearby or abroad, is the way I
start to notice the details of ordinary life. When I was just out of college I
spent a summer living with an eccentric woman in New Delhi whose love went to
great lengths to get European-style cheese for her. They would sit a t a dusty
table in her living room in the afternoons, talking and eating cheese. It was
that table with the plate of cheese on it that inspired the first successful
story I ever wrote.
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