Encounter

Happy Birthday, Milan Kundera

Happy Birthday, Milan Kundera

“I read a book one day, and my whole life was changed.”

That moment, as described in Orhan Pamuk's The New Life, came for me during my first year of university. In southern California while on spring break, conversation from the next room grew louder. Demands rang out to pass the bottle and shuffle and deal the cards. Yet I wanted only to plunge deeper into The Unbearable Lightness of Being.