News & Reviews

On Not Winning

By Arjun Basu | Published: November 11, 2025

I was up for a prize yesterday and I didn’t win. Who won doesn’t matter (you can find them here). And here is what the jury said about my work: While we were inside during the gala, it snowed. A lot. A full on snow storm. It is November 11th and I felt that a […]

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One Year Later

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 16, 2025

The Reeds was published a year ago, quietly, by choice (mine, not my publishers, believe me). And being quiet, I haven’t talked about it much. There was an event, and some signings, and more events, and some Q&As, a podcast (not mine!), and this Q&A featuring both myself and my brother, which may have been […]

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A Very Good Interview Where I Talk About The Reeds More Than I Ever Have And Most Probably Might Ever Again Probably (For Sure)

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 2, 2025

  I was the guest on a podcast a few months ago. The host, Red Szell is an amazingly interesting person in his own right and should be the guest on every podcast in the world, though that might tire him out, because there are too many podcasts in the world. Anyhow, he had me […]

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Some Reviews of The Reeds

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 9, 2025

Emphasis on “some.”    

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2024: The Year of Aspirational Stupidity

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 2, 2025

In 2024 people finally were fed up and voted out everybody for other everybodys who, still, promised to make your life worse by making theirs better, because though we’ve lost hope we are still aspirational.  Aspiration is why we still get out of bed in the morning and stumble to the kitchen and make coffee […]

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The Start of The Game

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 25, 2024

This from Quill and Quire, Canada’s book industry magazine, a publication that used to be much much larger and perhaps more influential and isn’t any longer. But hats off, it continues to exist and that’s saying something. I don’t know if they’re still in print, but they have a website. It was always niche but […]

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You Can Hear My Awful Voice

By Arjun Basu | Published: January 26, 2016

Everyone thinks their voice is awful and I’m “everyone” too so I think my voice is awful. It must be hard for singers. I was on a podcast recently and I talked about my writing, restaurants in Montreal, and my day job. It’s not a must listen or anything, but it’s a surprisingly entertaining 40 […]

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En francais, dude

By Arjun Basu | Published: November 8, 2015

I’m not so ambivalent about reviews now, not with the French version of my book, at least. Because the book is old and the reviews aren’t going to drive me so crazy. And so here’s the first review (that I know of) and it’s good! If not great. And speaking of Attends-moi, I’ll be at […]

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More Twitter!

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 25, 2015

I still get interviewed about Twitter. It’s an odd thing, really, I mean most days Twitter feels like it’s on the outs, but then some big news thing happens, and where do you get your news? That’s right. Twitter. At least I do. (The image above is from someone’s Twitter stream and it’s the best […]

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And Then You Hold A New Book In Your Hand

By Arjun Basu | Published: September 9, 2015

And it feels awesome (literally – the matte finish is silky). It’s odd to hold your own book and to not have read it. But the French version of Waiting for the Man will be published next month (it launches this week) and I’m kind of thrilled by it. Mostly because as a Quebecois the […]

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