Amit Majmudar
Amit Majmudar is a novelist, poet, translator, essayist, and diagnostic nuclear radiologist. Majmudar's latest book is Godsong: A Verse Translation of the Bhagavad-Gita, with Commentary (Knopf, 2018). Two novels, Sitayana and Soar, are forthcoming in India from Penguin Random House India in 2019, as well as a poetry collection in the United States, Kill List (Knopf, 2020). His prose has appeared in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017 and The Best American Essays 2018. He writes and practices in Westerville, Ohio, where he lives with his wife, twin sons, and daughter.
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Picture Postcards from the Cultural Revolution
1. The biology professor’s bicycle got a flat three blocks from the university. He had thought that was the nadir of his day, but the bicycle, his faithful companion since he had been fourteen years old, had been trying to tell him something. At fourteen, he had ridden that bicycle away full speed from […]