Author Archives: padma

Like many writers in the pandemic age (it feels like an age, but it’s only been a few weeks so far), I have been wondering how best to respond. Poets and nonfiction writers have been the quickest off the mark, ……
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Every few years, I make another attempt at restarting posting on this “blog,” an effort that seems ever quainter as “blog” itself now sounds quaint. My very failure to maintain it should be, by now, comforting–surely I’m destined again to ……
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It’s nice to know my novels still have life so many years on. The Ever After of Ashwin Rao was just chosen by Ezvid Wiki for their list of 11 Literary Novels That Confront Contemporary Issues, which includes many other excellent ……
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Now that the police have come, I can talk about this: Yesterday, as I was leaving the house with kids, dog, mother, I passed, for the second time, what looked like a damp glove on our street. This time, as ……
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These five people won Audible.com copies of The Toss of a Lemon–congrats to them and thanks to all for entering! 

So happy to announce that my first novel, The Toss of a Lemon, is now available on Audible.com, narrated by the magnetic Farah Bala. Want to win a copy? See below.   Set in early 19th c. south India, The ……
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Had a lot of fun giving the Audible.com edition of The Ever After of Ashwin Rao to these folks! (With thanks to My Lovely Assistant for pulling names out of the hat and convincing me to give away a couple ……
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Thrilled that my novel, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, is now available on Audible.com, narrated by the very talented Sunil Malhotra. Want to win a copy? See below. One of the most flattering review comments this book received  was that ……
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When I lived in Montreal I would, after a long morning of writing, rise reluctantly from my desk, forced to leave the house on minor errands–the post office, the corner store–and on leaving, find myself in the midst of lives, ……
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Last week, I saw Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s solo show at The New Museum, in New York. Yiadom-Boakye is a youngish portraitist, much-talked about. Some of the chatter is generated by greatly exaggerated reports of the death of portraiture, or figurative painting more broadly; some because ……
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