In a city where avid readers regard authors as “rock stars,” Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri drew a capacity crowd over the weekend to the Folger Shakespeare Library in D.C., where she received the annual PEN/Malamud Award for short fiction for “Unaccustomed Earth,” her latest book of short stories.
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