Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, Author on THE PERKS OF SOLITUDE
“In Virginia Woolf’s , Peter Walsh asks Clarissa Dalloway: ‘What is the sense of your parties?‘ In Michael Cunningham’s —an elegiac hat doff to —Richard Brown, a feted novelist who is living with AIDS, receives a major award but right before a celebratory party hosted by his friend, Clarissa Vaughn, he jumps out his window to his death. A few years ago, at a dinner for a photographer
