It’s An Honor Just to be Covering First came the Booker announcement, with Kiran Desai winning for THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS, which the judges called “a magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness.” At 35, she’s the youngest women ever to win the award. In accepting, she honored her mother Anita, nominated three times for the Booker: “The debt I owe to my mother is so profound that I feel the book is hers as much as mine. It was written in her company and in her wisdom and kindness.” Richard Charkin plays with […]