Advance reader copies
National print and online campaign including The Atlantic and The
New Yorker.
Excerpts in Lithub, Electric Literature, and Slate.
Social media campaign
5-city national tour
Delicious ephemera
Naben Ruthnum won the Journey Prize for his short fiction, and has been a National Post books columnist and written books and cultural criticism for the Globe and Mail, Hazlitt, and the Walrus. His crime fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and Joyland, and his pseudonym Nathan Ripley’s first novel will appear in 2018. His Journey-prize winning story Cinema Rex” seeded the ideas in Curry: Eating, Reading and Race.
"Curry proves itself to be a smart text, one that shows us the link
between who we are and what we eat is never as straightforward as
it may first appear." --The Walrus
"Curry is a challenging, but refreshing take on the politics
involved in our reading and choices, and one that reminds us of the
messy ambiguity of racial identity, particularly in diasporic
communities. Ruthnum's mixing of personal history and vast reading
experience make it valuable contribution to discussions of race in
writing and popular culture." --Hamilton Review of Books
"Curry is an engaging and insightful long-form essay that connects
the dots between the popular dish and how it functions as shorthand
for brown identity in representing the food, culture and social
perception of the South Asian diaspora." --CBC Books
"Curry, which reads more like a conversation than a hardcore
critique, introduces Ruthnum's philosophical and humorous side."
--Metro News
"Always engaging and sometimes funny, [Ruthnum is] most fierce when
talking about currybooks ..." --NOW Magazine
"Ruthnum picks apart Jhumpa Lahiri, Rohinton Mistry, Daniyal
Mueenudin, Shoba Narayan, Madhur Jaffrey, and Harold and Kumar Go
to White Castle with a thoughtful ambivalence that exhibits an
admirable intellectual honesty ...It's fun to watch him think."
--The Toronto Star
"Ruthnum's provocative intellectual journey in Curry: Eating,
Reading, and Race explores this colonial endpoint, tracing the
complex roots of curry as well as its diasporic colonization of the
West in a series of interconnected essays that are as deliciously
pleasant in narrative style as they are provocatively piquant in
theoretical debate." --Pop Matters
"Spot on, scathing, and often humorous, Ruthbum's prose has a
strong sense of voice that is unlike anything produced lately."
--Quill & Quire
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