T 5690

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 28, 2012

We huddled under the tree, waiting for the storm to pass. We’re going to die, she told me, and then I took her hand. Pull my finger, I said.

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T 5689

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 28, 2012

She comments on my hat and I say, It’s a chapeau. She slaps me. The bartender mixes my gin gimlet. I also detest cats, I say. And she purrs.

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T 5868

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 28, 2012

He’d been sent to the pharmacy and he felt lost already. I need women’s things, he told the clerk. Dude, the clerk said. With understanding.

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T 5867

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 28, 2012

We went on a safari, trying to salvage something already dead perhaps. She loved the bull elephants. Because they made me feel so inadequate.

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The New Book Business

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 15, 2012

Here’s the thing. Yes, every writer should be pleased to be free of the shackles of the publishing industry. If you consider the industry to be like a bunch of evil plantation owners enslaving the poor writers of the world. It’s not, of course, but it is an industry and as in any industry it’s […]

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Pretty sure this should be my epitaph

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 14, 2012

Because it’s a pretty good one. (Though truth be told, I’m going to be cremated….hopefully not anytime soon)

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The Week in Video

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 9, 2012

I did some video this week. The people at VYou asked me to respond to questions and I did. A lot of them. Perhaps 30. All of this on Monday night. After each video response was posted, I shot it to Twitter. That may have been a mistake. A few peeps wrote me to tell […]

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Ask Me Anything

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 30, 2012

This Monday, September 3, 2012, at 9:00 PM (eastern time), I am going to answer questions online. You should start posting them right now on VYou (by clicking here). I will answer all of your questions I, especially the dumb and aggressively obnoxious ones. So start your Labor Day weekend by asking me a question. […]

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How Much is That Book Review in the Window?

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 28, 2012

A big kerfuffle after the New York Times published a story about a guy doing what every one in the world had to suspect at some point that every one was actually doing all along: he was paid to write reviews for books on Amazon. And some very big writers at Amazon were part of […]

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Books Need to Get Bookier

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 26, 2012

Look at these things. They are gorgeous. I would never have read….no, that’s not true. I would have read them in any form imaginable.  A Joseph Conrad novella (that I’d never read, from a series from Melville House that I’d never heard of) and F. Scott on booze! I found them at my neighbourhood bookstore, […]

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