Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents viii
3. Author’s Note xi
4. PART I. READING
5. Chapter 1. Paper 3
6. Chapter 2. My Hanif Kureishi Life 14
7. Chapter 3. The Map of My Village 29
8. Chapter 4. The Poetry of Gujarat Riots 32
9. Chapter 5. Conversation with Arundhati Roy 37
10. Chapter 6. Salman Rushdie and Me 51
11. Chapter 7. Bad News 58
12. PART II. WRITING
13. Chapter 8. How to Write a Novel 79
14. Chapter 9. Reading Like a Writer 84
15. Chapter 10. Writing My Own Satya 97
16. Chapter 11. Dead Bastards 106
17. Chapter 12. The Writer as a Father 110
18. Chapter 13. Ten Rules of Writing 119
19. PART III. PLACES
20. Chapter 14. Mofussil Junction 127
21. Chapter 15. A Collaborator in Kashmir 132
22. Chapter 16. At the Jaipur Literature Festival 141
23. Chapter 17. Hotel Leeward 146
24. Chapter 18. The Mines of Jadugoda 151
25. Chapter 19. Upon Arrival in the Past 155
26. Chapter 20. Bookstores of New York 162
27. PART IV. PEOPLE
28. Chapter 21. Lunch with a Bigot 169
29. Chapter 22. The Boxer on the Flight 183
30. Chapter 23. Amartya’s Birth 187
31. Chapter 24. The Taxi Drivers of New York 192
32. Chapter 25. On Being Brown in America 196
33. Chapter 26. Missing Person 201
34. Index 213