A Vision of the New World

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 30, 2012

For those who couldn’t make last week’s Shindig, here are two screenshots from the event. The first one shows me and some extremely bored looking people waiting around for the reading to start. (My kid is in the screenshot along the bottom.) The second one shows a screenshot from the Q&A session, really toward the […]

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The Virtual Fan

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 27, 2012

Last night, after much promotion, I held a virtual reading at a site called Shindig. Kind of like a mix between a group Skype or a G+ hangout, Shindig allows writers (or anyone for that matter) to talk to a lot of people from different places at the same time. It also allows them to […]

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New Short Story at Joylandmagazine.com

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 24, 2012

Joyland is a great online fiction magazine that edits regionally. What does that mean? Different cities have different editors and they all publish stories to create the magazine. Anyhow, I have a new short story up, published today (link here). This is the story that was a finalist for the Sidney Prize, though it’s been […]

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Come to A Virtual Reading

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 12, 2012

Yes. This is an invitation. I told you recently that a short story I had written had been a finalist for the Sidney Prize. Well, I didn’t win. But that’s not the point of this. Shindig is a new kind of website that wants to become, well, a lot of things – in the manner […]

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I Make an Appearance in an Indian Magazine

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 12, 2012

There’s a whole lot of Bollywood stuff here. And then some people who sound smart. And then there’s me. Oh well, someone’s got to bell curve smart things. Now, I want to know who all the ladies in these graphs are. And, frankly, what the graphs mean. Someone enlighten me.

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Two Very Different Books, One Recommendation

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 9, 2012

Two books by two friends. I met Steve way, way back – he was in my first creative writing class. Steve, myself, and Dave McGimpsey were kind of like the three outliers in a class that was populated by the kind of earnest students dipping their pens into the philosophy de jour. I won’t say […]

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T 5516

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 2, 2012

Home is where I do the disgusting things, he sighs. Like fart while eating steak. But that’s not disgusting, she says. And then he proposes.

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T 5515

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 2, 2012

One: The boys grow up. Two: The boys get in some big trouble. Three: Their mother makes it all about her. Four: The boys eat Oreos and plot.

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T 5514

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 2, 2012

The DJ played ELO’s Telephone Line. The man at the end of the bar said, I miss making out with girls wearing braces. Then his mother called.

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T 5513

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 2, 2012

He casts the line and he breathes in the damp air and a fly flies up his nostril and he falls out of the boat and drowns. The fish bite him.

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