News & Reviews

A Little Bit of Paper

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 2, 2015

The paperback version of Waiting for the Man is out now. Or will be soon, depending on where you live. If this interests you, walk to your local bookstore and buy it. If they don’t have one, ask them to order it for you. Or, of course, you can purchase it online. In Canada: Amazon […]

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The Me Movie

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2015

A few years back, well maybe 18 months back, so somewhere in that netherworld between a few “months” and a few “years” back, a video-journalist (I know! What a world!) from LaPresse+ (the iPad version of Montreal’s LaPresse) did a story on me. One of the major weaknesses of LaPresse+ (and perhaps its only one […]

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Waiting for the Man in A Land Down Under

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 6, 2014

No Aussie jokes here. There are enough in this interview I did with Booktopia, an online store in Australia that is carrying Waiting for the Man. As if I were a local. I did a Q&A and got two bad Australian jokes out of my system. So that’s it. No more. I welcome my Australian […]

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Reviews, Mentions and Related Silliness Concerning Waiting for the Man

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 13, 2014

I’m not going to read reviews for Waiting for the Man. I took this decision to maintain my sanity. To not think about perception, or more to the point, how my work is being perceived. This is not to say I don’t want people to purchase it and consume and it and, yes, love it. […]

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Book Launch, Appearances and Readings

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 18, 2014

Here we go. I will add to this as new dates/events warrant. 2015 SEPTEMBER 11, MONTREAL: Lancement de traduction Attends-Moi 17h Café L’Ecarté, 2525 de Rouen There will be more. For sure. And I’ll keep posting them here.

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Appearance at Ottawa Writers Festival

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 15, 2014

I’ll be in Ottawa on April 28, reading at the Ottawa Writers Festival with Jonathan Bennett (a fellow ECW author) and the great Miriam Toews. The artistic director of the festival seems to love the book (first in radio and now in print) – though when I meet him I’m going to have to tell […]

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Montreal Book Launch

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 11, 2014

Is all set. Here’s the post from Drawn & Quarterly. More cities/dates will be announced soonish. And away we go!

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The Real Book Trailer for Waiting for the Man

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 9, 2014

With special thanks to Jason Camlot for the music, and editing work by Aras Bukauskis. So there is the Slideshare version and now there’s this. Oh publicity! And there’s this. Same thing. On Vimeo. BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO BE EVERYWHERE! Waiting for the Man from Arjun Basu on Vimeo.

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Waiting for the Man on the Radio

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2014

No. That’s not a new hip band from Brooklyn. They talked about Waiting for the Man on CBC Ottawa’s All in a Day show. Saying some amazingly nice things. And one giant whopper: I DO NOT have 1,000,000 followers on Twitter. Not even close. Here’s the show. I’m the first book (lasts a little under […]

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A Playlist for Waiting for the Man

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 3, 2014

Because, yes, in a novel kind of named after a song, each chapter is also, um, named after a song. And I made a playlist. Note that you will not discern meaning out of this playlist, or discover hidden messages in the juxtaposition of songs and/or styles. No. I chose these songs because the titles […]

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