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NBA/culture scribe . Comedian. Memoir: "Missed Translations: Meeting The Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me" (4/21/2020; ). CBS, AJAM, NBC alum

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    Apr 21

    IT’S LAUNCH DAY!!!!!!! It’s been a long 2 years but release day is finally here and I could not be more excited. My thanks to and for bringing Missed Translations to life. If you haven’t ordered yet, here is the link!

    I am trying to be different in promoting my book and not be annoying about it. So today, I'm posting part of the original book proposal to give more of a sense of what the book is about and what convinced to take a shot. Pre-order link.
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    9 minutes ago

    "My father was clapping wildly at my strikeout and taking pictures. His son, as he understood it, had not had to endure the punishment of running around this diamond-shaped field, which he took to be a major victory." Nice one, !

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    Tonight Open Book opens with Happy Birthday, Wordsworth! Then, on his memoir, culture, and who knows?

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    41 minutes ago

    Tonight's Open Book: we mark Wordsworth's birthday with a poem (his!) then on his memoir of getting reintroduced to his parents as an adult (and other things in a rich life). Join us! Live bounced to instantly! 6:15 ET/ 3:15 PT We crave questions!

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    Another conversation with this evening!

    Tonight's Open Book: we mark Wordsworth's birthday with a poem (his!) then on his memoir of getting reintroduced to his parents as an adult (and other things in a rich life). Join us! Live bounced to instantly! 6:15 ET/ 3:15 PT We crave questions!
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    1 hour ago

    Our Virtual with "Missed Translations" author and moderator is now on YouTube! Lupita and Sopan discussed the first-generation immigrant experience, how comedy informed his memoir writing, and what it's like for people of color in publishing.

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    8 hours ago

    5 of 5 stars to Missed Translations by Sopan Deb

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    3 hours ago

    I really wish stories like these existed when I was growing up/younger and I'm so happy for a generation that gets to grow up seeing how diverse South Asian storytelling can be, and that we are not a monolith defined by tone-deaf jokes about mocking indian accents 😋

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    3 hours ago

    Between binging 's and reading 's Missed Translations all in one go this weekend, I've had a lot of positive crying in the past few days. I'm so glad to live in a time where we have such brilliantly nuanced South Asian stories being told👏🏾

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    4 hours ago

    The NBA has informed its teams it is targeting May 8 as the earliest date for opening practice facilities in states where stay-at-home restrictions have been eased, league sources say

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  11. 3 hours ago

    If you read it and it resonates with you too, message me. I'm easy to get in touch with That kind of connection means way more to me than what any critic has to say about this.

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  12. 3 hours ago

    Missed Translations came out a week ago, and I was worried that this would mostly be read by my friends and colleagues. And then I started getting wonderful messages like these in multiple forms from total strangers who say they can relate to my story. Incredibly grateful.

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    4 hours ago

    JUST IN... my mailbox. Missed Translations by . This will immediately rise to the top my to-read list. Very excited. I anticipate lots of relating and crying and laughing.

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  15. 5 hours ago

    i love this interview with toni kukoc because it shines a light on how much kukoc absolutely did not care about anything thrown his way. nothing could faze him.

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    5 hours ago

    If you're still waiting for your hard copy of book to be delivered like I am, there's an excerpt today to hold you over:

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  17. 5 hours ago

    only 364 days left till the next sondheim livestream and I can’t possibly survive till then

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    6 hours ago

    This is such a lovely read... and clearly I need to buy 's book

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    7 hours ago

    . continues to hit all the feels - How I Found Common Ground With My Immigrant Dad on a Clay Court

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    8 hours ago

    I can so relate to this piece by having also grown up in New Jersey with an Indian father and being clueless about all the sports my friends were enjoying. It's a great read. (I get bonus points because for a time I also lived in Howell, NJ!)

    For , I adapted an essay from Missed Translations about my immigrant father and our first time playing a sport together. I was 30. He was in his late 70s. Antoine Walker is mentioned.
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    9 hours ago

    A lovely story about rekindling a relationship with his father, by .

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