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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Appearance at Ottawa Writers Festival
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Montreal Book Launch
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
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
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
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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Tagged ABBA, AC/DC, Ace of Base, Aerosmith, Al Green, B*Witched, Big Country, Boards of Canada, Broken Bells, China Crisis, David Bowie, Ella Fitzgerald, Franz Ferdinand, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Gorrilaz, Grandmaster Flash, Grooveshark, James Brown, John Denver, Lou Reed, Luba, Madonna, music, My Chemical Romance, Nina Simone, Paul Anka, playlist, Roger Waters, Roxy Music, Sleater-Kinney, Stone Temple Pilots, T. Mills, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Dirty Heads, The Feelies, The National, The Smiths, Tom Waits, Velvet Underground, Waiting for the Man, Willie Nelson
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And Now You Can Pre-Order Kindle Editions…
…of Waiting for the Man. At all regular Amazon outlets. US Canada UK Australia Germany You get the idea. More e-versions as they become available. Also, if you purchase the print version of the book, wherever you happen to be, you can receive an e-version of the book for free. (The print book can be […]
Flappin Flap Flaps
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 […]
