Taymour Soomro

Reading: “The Calcutta Affair”, a short story

October 15, 2026, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm CT
In-person: 206 Ingraham Hall
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Description: A young Englishman travels to Calcutta in the early 1970s and has an affair with a local Muslim bank clerk.

About the Speaker
Taymour Soomro is the author of the novel Other Names for Love and the co-editor of the essay collection Letters to a Writer of Color. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times. He teaches on the graduate creative writing program at Bennington College.