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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Yesterday morning, I opened the door to let the dog in after a long night of hard rains. The air was hot, muggy, already at 7. The contrast felt apocalyptic, but everything does these days: it’s just my usual adjective. How ……
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I finished listening through S-Town yesterday, and want very badly to discuss it with someone. But since my husband couldn’t get past the tragic death in the second episode, which had him crying while pushing a shopping cart around Whole Foods, I ……
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