On October 3, I participated in a fiction panel at the New Yorker festival. I was a little horrified by my cartoon in the catalog, but I suppose that's supposed to be the point. Enjoyed the party afterwards!

Here's an account of the session on emdashes.com.

It gave me great pleasure to join five other South Asian writers: Salman Rushdie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kiran Desai, Suketu Mehta and Akhil Sharma to put on a benefit reading for Obama on October 4. The event was organized by author Meera Nair, and emceed by film maker Mira Nair. Suketu had a great party at his house afterwards. We ended up raising $56,000 for Obama! Here's more on it on Sepia Mutiny.