“I see very little when I’m writing,” Jhumpa Lahiri tells me. We’re speaking over Zoom. In her square on the screen it’s 5 p.m., and a warm July light filters into the Rome apartment where she has lived on and off for just over a decade. Over the course of our conversation, a light breeze sometimes lifts her long hair; she is serious, with a precise attention to her language, occasionally circling back to revise a word and then explaining her reason for the edit. “I mean, I’m kind of right up against it and I don’t understand what I’m doing most of the time. I don’t have a sense of what...…“I see very little when I’m writing,” Jhumpa Lahiri tells me. We’re speaking over Zoom. In her square on the screen it’s 5 p.m., and a warm July light filters into the Rome apartment where she has lived on and off for just over a decade. Over the course of our conversation, a light breeze sometimes lifts her long hair; she is serious, with a precise attention to her language, occasionally circling back to revise a word and then explaining her reason for the edit. “I mean, I’m kind of right up against it and I don’t understand what I’m doing most of the time. I don’t have a sense of what...WW…