Akhil Sharma is the author of Family Life and A Life of Adventure and Delight. He’s a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and has won a bunch of awards including the PEN/Hemingway Award, Guggenheim, and International Dublin Literary Award. He’s also a professor at Duke University.Buy Akhil Sharma’s novel Family LifeBuy Akhil’s story collection A Life of Adventure and DelightRead Akhil’s Why I hate My Best Short Story in The New YorkerRead Akhil’s short story We Didn’t Like Him in The New YorkerListen to convo with Akhil & Fiction Editor Deborah Treisman on TNYer PodcastRate/review Kurt Vonnegut Radio (this is how you help our show live) More episodes of KVR: Sinead O’ConnorSari BottonSam Lipsyte Andrew Leland George Saunders Kurt VonnegutFollow Kurt Vonnegut Radio on podcast app of your choiceFind Gabe on Twitter and InstagramContact Gabe at gabehudsonpod(at)gmail.comJude Brewer was executive producer and editor for this episodeLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices