6/10/21 review of The Anarchy, by William Dalrymple

Here is the link to my June 10, 2021, Twitter thread review of the book The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company, by William Dalrymple.

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1/12/21 review of the novel Notes from a Writer's Book of Cures and Spells

Here is the link to my January 12, 2021, Twitter thread review of the novel Notes from a Writer's Book of Cures and Spells, by Marcia Douglas.

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5/10/19 review of the book The Classical Debt, by Johanna Hanink

Here is the link to my May 10, 2019, Twitter thread review of the book The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity, by Johanna Hanink.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still moderately coherent. My apologies.

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4/9/19 review of the novel Mañana Means Heaven, by Tim Z. Hernandez

Here is the link to my April 9, 2019, Twitter thread review of the book Mañana Means Heaven, by Tim Z. Hernandez.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still moderately coherent. My apologies.

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4/4/19 review of the novels Paro and Priya, by Namita Gokhale

Here is the link to my April 4, 2019, Twitter thread review of the novels Paro and Priya, by Namita Gokhale.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is very affected, and is only somewhat coherent. My apologies.

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11/2/18 review of the book Drawing Blood, by Molly Crabapple

Here is the link to my November 2, 2018, Twitter thread review of the book Drawing Blood, by Molly Crabapple.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still mostly coherent. My apologies.

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10/19/18 review of the book On Michael Jackson, by Margo Jefferson

Here is the link to my October 19, 2018, Twitter thread review of the book On Michael Jackson, by Margo Jefferson.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still mostly coherent. My apologies.

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9/25/18 review of the book Lost in Time: Ghatotkacha & the Game of Illusions

Here is the link to my September 25, 2018, Twitter thread review of the book Lost in Time: Ghatotkacha & the Game of Illusions, by Namita Gokhale.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still mostly coherent. My apologies.

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9/22/18 review of 2018 Jaipur Literature Festival in Boulder, Colorado

Here is the link to my September 22, 2018, Twitter thread review of the 2018 Jaipur Literature Festival in Boulder, Colorado.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still moderately coherent. My apologies.

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9/16/17 review of 2017 Jaipur Literature Festival in Boulder, Colorado

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the 2017 Jaipur Literature Festival in Boulder, Colorado.

The thread gives some background on the festival and summaries of the various panels I saw. The panels addressed themes like literary appropriation, literary collaboration, the immigrant experience in literature, literacy and civilization, oral history and civilization, and nationalism in today's world. The thread also lists some books I bought while at the festival.

Here is the link to the website for the Jaipur Literature Festival, which has events all around the world each year.

The 2017 Jaipur Literature Festival in Boulder, Colorado, took place at the Boulder Public Library.

10/23/16 review of Jaipur Literature Festival volunteer party

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of a 2016 volunteer appreciation day held by the Jaipur Literature Festival, Colorado team.

The thread is brief, but it gives an idea of some of the folks -- from all around the world -- who helped put together the 2016 Jaipur Literature Festival event in Boulder, Colorado.

Here is the link for the website for the Jaipur Literature Festival, which has events all around the world.

9/26/16 review of 2016 Jaipur Literature Festival in Colorado

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the 2016 Jaipur Literature Festival in Boulder, Colorado.

The thread gives some background on the Jaipur Literature Festival in general and the Boulder, Colorado, event in particular. It discusses my experiences with volunteering with the JLF. And it discusses and gives pictures of panels and performances by people like Charles Rice-Gonzalez, Jane Shepard, Amrit Kaur, Jovan Mays, Nicholas Carr, Gopi Kallayil, Rajasthan Josh, William Dalrymple, and Vidya Shah.

Here is the link to the website for the Jaipur Literature Festival, which has events all over the world.

I attended this event at the Boulder Public Library in Boulder, Colorado.

9/9/16 review of the book The Good Spy, by Kai Bird

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the book The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames, by Kai Bird.

The thread gives some background on the book and on Kai Bird. The thread discusses how the book views Robert Ames as a CIA member and as a person. It gives a link to a panel discussion Kai Bird did at the Jaipur Literature Festival in Colorado in 2015. And it gives a preview of the 2016 JLF Colorado event.

Here is the link to the Penguin Random House web page for The Good Spy.

Here is the link to the Jaipur Literature Festival, which has events all around the world.

4/24/16 review of a Jaipur Literature Festival sneak-peek conversation

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of a 2016 Jaipur Literature Festival Colorado sneak-peek panel discussion called The Long Road Home from War. The panel features Helen Thorpe, Ami Dayan, and Laird Hunt and was moderated by Mark Williams.

My thread gives some background on the talk. It discusses the different views of the panelists. And it discusses the Jaipur Literature Festival in Colorado.

Here is the link to the Jaipur Literature Festival's Colorado event.

I saw this panel at the Boulder Public Library in Colorado.

3/24/16 review of The Puffin Mahabharata, by Namita Gokhale

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of The Puffin Mahabharata, by Namita Gokhale.

The Puffin Mahabharata is a modern retelling of the Mahabharata, one of the greatest religious texts and stories every told. My thread gives a summary of the book, some things the book's author, Namita Gokhale, has said about the Mahabharata, the lively women of the text, gender fluidity in the text, the way the text accepts human failure, the sources of context that drive the drama of the story, and some information about Colorado's Jaipur Literature Festival, which is where I bought this book.

1/5/16 review of book The Habit of Love, by Namita Gokhale

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the book The Habit of Love, by Namita Gokhale.

This thread gives a bit of background on how I came to know Gokhale and how I came to read this book. It gives some background on the book itself. It discusses some elements I like in the book. It discusses some of my favorite stories, characters, and character types in the book.

Here is the link to Penguin India's web page for The Habit of Love.

I bought this book while at the Jaipur Literature Festival in Boulder, Colorado.

9/21/15 review of 2015 Jaipur Literature Festival in Boulder, Colorado

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the second day of the Jaipur Literature Festival in Boulder, Colorado.

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the first day.

The Jaipur Literature Festival started in Jaipur, India, in 2006. The Jaipur event has since grown to be the largest free literary festival in the world, with about 300,000 visitors each year. The JLF has grown to include other festival locations, in Australia, New York City, London, and Boulder, Colorado. The 2015 event was the first event held in Boulder.

In my Twitter thread I discuss panels that included Kai Bird, Arshia Sattar, Namita Gokhale, and Will Dalrymple. I relate some of the themes discussed at panels, such as the history of the CIA; religion and violence; faith and objectivity; religion, reverence, and rationality; writers' senses of place and belonging; social media; the environment; and censoring the imagination.

Here is a video of a panel from the 2015 JLF Boulder event, so you have a taste of things.

Here is the link to the Jaipur Literature Festival website.