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#DesiBooksReco April 2022
This is a #DesiBooksReco roundup of April 2022 new and notable books by writers of South Asian origin.
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#DesiBooksReview 2: The Urdu Afsana Meets the Anglophone Short Story in Farah Ali’s Debut
Talib Jabbar reviews Farah Ali’s story collection, People Want to Live.
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#DesiBooksReview 2: Fateema’s House of Her Own
Varisha Tariq reviews Ila Arab Mehta’s Fence, a novel, translated from Gujarati to English by Rita Kothari.
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#DesiCraftChat: Tanaïs on creating new pathways to tell stories and histories and honor literary lineage
Hello and welcome to Episode 69 of Desi Books—news and views about desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Thank you for tuning in. In today’s #DesiCraftChat, we have Tanaïs discussing their new memoir, In Sensorium. In this conversation, we talked about creating new pathways to tell our individual stories and…
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#DesiBooksReco February 2022
This is a #DesiBooksReco roundup of February 2022 new and notable books by writers of South Asian origin.
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#DesiBooksReview 1: Literary Lineage Essay by Meenal Shrivastava
Meenal Shrivastava writes an essay about the literary lineages that helped her write her hybrid memoir, Amma’s Daughters.
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#FiveDesiFaves Roundup: Community Favorites for 2021
Which website and podcast features were the most popular with Desi Books readers and listeners in 2021? Read below with the editor’s brief, personal notes.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Torsa Ghosal on how the literary imagination influences thought and perception
Torsa Ghosal discusses her new book, Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative, and her own favorite desi books on #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiReads: Geetanjali Shree reads from her novel, Ret Samadhi, and Daisy Rockwell reads from her translation of it, Tomb of Sand
Hello and welcome to Episode 54 of Desi Books—news and views about desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Thank you for tuning in. Today, in the #DesiReads segment, we have Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell in the #DesiReads segment. They’re reading from both the Hindi original novel, Ret Samadhi, and…
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#FiveDesiFaves: Vaseem Khan shares his favorite desi crime fiction works
Hello and welcome to Episode 52 of Desi Books—news and views about desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Today, in the #FiveDesiFaves segment, we have Vaseem Khan who has a new novel out titled The Dying Day. He’s sharing his five favorite desi crime fiction works from these writers: Aravind…
