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amitavakumar

@minalh Indian Poetry League? #IPL #Nah about 4 hours ago via web in reply to minalh
@willak Come back and see us. I believe this reunion year is for @daweiner. about 16 hours ago via web in reply to willak
Are there poems about grilled lobsters? instagr.am/p/LB3_y1tt35/ about 20 hours ago via Instagram
If it is hot where you are, may I recommend what Heesok has made for me instagr.am/p/LBxpXpNt08/ about 21 hours ago via Instagram
"In bombers named for girls, we burned/The cities we had learned about in school" Randall Jarrell #bestlinetoday 12:37 PM May 24th via web
@sidin @saliltripathi Joseph O'Neill's Netherland. All the elegance of David Gower in those sentences. 7:13 AM May 24th via web in reply to sidin
@saliltripathi The number of books you have _not_reviewed are fewer than the wickets taken by Bhajji during this IPL. 7:08 AM May 24th via web in reply to saliltripathi
@sidvee Good point! I was entertained in parts, but also frustrated by other bits. #storyofmylife 7:07 AM May 24th via web in reply to sidvee
@FirstNiagara Thank you! After nearly an hour on the phone, I hear the message "Please try calling us later." 7:04 AM May 24th via web
@sidin I see your name listed in the acknowledgments along with one Kumar Sangakkara and -- this rings a bell -- Michael Ondaatje. 7:03 AM May 24th via web in reply to sidin
Guardians of cricket-writing, that last tweet was for you @sidvee @sidin @prempanicker n.pr/KkamT8 6:54 AM May 24th via web
In which watching cricket comes in the way of reviewing a book for NPR n.pr/KkamT8 @GraywolfPress 6:52 AM May 24th via web
Yes, @firstniagara, I believe you! The customer care specialist will be with me momentarily. #44minuteshavepassed 6:46 AM May 24th via web
Facebookistan nyr.kr/LHNroG 6:23 AM May 24th via web
Jonathan Swift in Karachi bit.ly/JTfz7A @mohammedhanif @BhopalHouse 7:02 PM May 23rd via web
Dharun Ravi's mother wants him to eat well again; much better if she wanted him to say sorry instead. bit.ly/JRd4CV @sandipr 6:14 AM May 23rd via web in reply to sandipr
@Phillygrrl Write a story about it? Tell me what happened. 6:22 PM May 22nd via web in reply to Phillygrrl
@tajmahalfoxtrot ha! you drinking tonight, men? for @mahimkajerry and @Lalitude birthdays? 10:23 AM May 22nd via web in reply to tajmahalfoxtrot
"I'm an immigrant, I came to take your job..." twitter.com/amitavakumar/s… 6:16 AM May 22nd via web
@The_Millions I'm reading them now because Hemingway said that the newspaper work taught him to write simple declarative sentences. 8:07 AM May 21st via web in reply to The_Millions