Madhushree Ghosh on Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family with Mira Jacob and Mayukh Sen

In Conversation

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  Madhushree Ghosh

  Madhushree Ghosh

  As a woman in science, an immigrant, and a daughter of refugees, Madhushree Ghosh’s work reflects her roots and her activism. Her food narrative memoir, Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory and Family is forthcoming in April 2022 from the University of Iowa Press. Her work received a Notable Mention in the Best American Essays in Food Writing and was Pushcart-nominated. She has been published in the New York Times, the Rumpus, Catapult, Guernica, Longreads, Brevity, Hippocampus, Atlas Obscura, Serious Eats, the Kitchn, DAME, and others.

  Photo Credit: Hannah Claire Photography

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  Mira Jacob

  Mira Jacob

  Mira Jacob is a novelist, memoirist, illustrator, and cultural critic. Her graphic memoir Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, named a New York Times Notable Book, as well as a best book of the year by Time, Esquire, Publisher’s Weekly, and Library Journal. It is currently in development as a television series. Her novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing was a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers pick, shortlisted for India’s Tata First Literature Award, longlisted for the Brooklyn Literary Eagles Prize and named one of the best books of 2014 by Kirkus Reviews, the Boston Globe, Goodreads, Bustle, and the Millions. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Electric Literature, Tin House, Literary Hub, Guernica, Vogue, and the Telegraph. She is an Assistant Professor at the Writing Program at The New School, and a founding faculty member of the MFA Program at Randolph College. She is the co-founder of Pete’s Reading Series in Brooklyn, where she spent 13 years bringing literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to Williamsburg. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, documentary filmmaker Jed Rothstein, and their son.

  Photo Credit: Beowulf Sheehan

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  Mayukh Sen

  Mayukh Sen

  Mayukh Sen is the author of Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America, published by W.W. Norton & Company in November 2021. He is currently writing a biography of the Indian-born Old Hollywood actress Merle Oberon, which will also be published by W.W. Norton & Company. He has won a James Beard Award and IACP Award for his food writing, and his work has been anthologized in two editions of The Best American Food Writing. He teaches food writing at Columbia University’s undergraduate creative writing program. He lives in Brooklyn.