Jhumpa Lahiri

Lil’ Rhody Racks Up Presidential Appointments

Barack Obama has an eye for talent—and it’s pointed at Rhode Island. This weekend, Obama appointed Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, which describes its mission as connecting people through various arts and cultural tourism.  Lahiri joins five other PCAH committee appointees, including visual artist Chuck Close, …

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Well, it was never going to be about coffee milk.

The Sunday NYT’s Book Review has a very favorable review (“funny, moving … greater than the sum of its excellent parts…”) of State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, a compilation of 50 essays.  I immediately scanned the piece to see if Rhode Island got mentioned and in what way. Who did we get?  …

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