His Fantasy Literary Dinner Party? He Already Threw It.
As a student, Anand Giridharadas asked V.S. Naipaul to dinner on a lark — and, when Naipaul accepted, carried him up three flights of stairs to his apartment. “It was strange and beautiful,” says Giridharadas, whose new book is “The Persuaders,” “to carry the man who had taught me to write.”