Tuesday, October 13, 2026 · 7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store — 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
Harvard Book Store welcomes Aruni Kashyap —acclaimed author, translator, and an associate professor and director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia—for a discussion of his new novel, How to Date a Fanatic. He will be joined in conversation by Neel Mukherjee —award-winning author and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Harvard University. About How to Date a Fanatic In this compassionate, poignant novel set-in contemporary India, a young professor searches for connection and love during a time of political and cultural upheaval. As political tensions rise precipitously across India, Rohit returns to Delhi University to teach and gets caught in a web of unrequited love with his friend Dhruv. To alleviate his inevitable heartbreak, Rohit seeks relationships with other men in the city, until he meets and embarks on a delicate new romance with the effervescent Sayan, a literature student he hopes will be the answer to getting over Dhruv. Rohit’s life soon becomes more complicated as the country’s political tensions erupt on campus, sparking a turbulent student-led movement that entangles Rohit when Dhruv joins the fray, a tipping point that changes Rohit’s…