Poets & Writers Theater
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As the end of the year approaches, Ann Patchett, author and owner of Parnassus Books, and Maureen Corrigan, professor and book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, reveal their favorite books of 2025 for PBS Newshour, which include The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (Hogarth, 2025) by Kiran Desai, The Antidote (Knopf, 2025) by Karen Russell, and A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction (Ecco, 2025) by Elizabeth McCracken.
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In this 2024 Bangalore Literature Festival event, Kiran Desai reads from her third novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (Hogarth, 2025), which she describes as “an epic, unresolved love story,” and speaks about the nearly twenty-year process of writing the book with Arunava Sinha. A profile of Desai by Renée H. Shea appears in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
