Flappin Flap Flaps

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 24, 2014

And on and on we go. The front flap is thus. An excerpt and a quick summary. The back flap is the standard author photo and bio. The back cover is blurbville. And then, you know, the spine, etc. This thing is almost done. The product. It’s going to go to a factory and become […]

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Waiting for Waiting for the Man

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 4, 2014

The National Post’s Afterword page, one of Canada’s most dependably consistently great book pages, made a list (sigh) of the “25 most anticipated (Canadian) books of 2014.” Waiting for the Man is not on the list. But it was still mentioned. I’ll take it. As one person on Twitter wrote to me, I should compare […]

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On Paste’s Best of Twitter List

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 2, 2014

So I made Paste’s Best Twitter Accounts list. That’s three years running. I’m beginning to think I owe them money or something. Yes, I know, I said something about year end lists previously. But there’s something about the Paste list that is very edifying. Always has been. Look who else is on it! Um clears […]

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The Year In Review

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 27, 2013

Yes, yes, yes. I know what I just wrote here. So what? This is my website. Some quick stats: Over 13,000 page views this year. For some people, that’s a good hour on their website. Or a few minutes. But that’s what I got all year. I think that’s less than 2012. I think I […]

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Screw Nostalgia

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 23, 2013

As the year draws to a close, media is stuck in its annual paradox: it celebrates the past while looking forward…and completely ignoring the present. Best of lists proliferate, like jellyfish in an unbalanced sea, until you don’t even feign surprise to find a Best of Best of list, or, at the very least, a […]

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Blurbs, Reviews and Good Cheer

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 11, 2013

Blurbs are rolling in. Rolling, rolling, rolling… The one on the front cover is from Douglas Coupland: “Waiting for the Man is a strangely engrossing, meticulously written allegory of the present moment.” This is from Jonathan Goldstein (host of one of the best shows on radio, Wiretap) and a great writer himself: “With Waiting For […]

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Waiting for the Man Giveaway!

By Arjun Basu | Published: December 4, 2013

You can enter to win a copy of an ARC (advance reader copy) of my upcoming novel over at Goodreads. How fun is that? The contest is open December 4 to January 4 and is open to residents of the US and Canada (sorry everyone else in the world… for real). So go for it! […]

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A Physical Object

By Arjun Basu | Published: November 29, 2013

So I received the real deal. Well, close. This is what’s going to go to reviewers. And it has blurbs on it. The cover has a blurb from Douglas Coupland. It’s a very Couplandesque blurb: On the back, blurbs from Jonathan Goldstein and Stephen Marche: The whole thing feels kind of thrilling. I’m trying to […]

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Don’t Count Your Words

By Arjun Basu | Published: November 23, 2013

It’s not a good thing. You get obsessed with the wordcount and not the words. You start to take shortcuts, or want to, because you’re not looking at the right thing, for the right reason, and you’re not doing the work. I know this and I know it to be true, it’s a truism it’s […]

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First Page of the ECW Press Spring 2014 Catalog

By Arjun Basu | Published: November 16, 2013

Right here. Looks kinda awesome, no?

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