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Arjun Basu

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born
in Montreal, Canada
gender
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March 2008


About this author

I write. I do other stuff. My first book, Squishy, was published in 2008 and my first novel, Waiting for the Man, will be published by ECW in the spring of 2014. I also write 140 character short stories on Twitter twitter.com/arjunbasu (@arjunbasu). You can also find a Writer page on Facebook. My website is www.arjunbasu.com.


Average rating: 4.31 · 13 ratings · 2 reviews · 1 distinct work · Similar authors
Squishy
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions

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Thursday (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Mar 29, 2010 04:33pm
Description: An excerpt of a short story from my upcoming collection, Squishy (DC Books)
Waiting for the Man (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Feb 25, 2009 08:47am
Description: An excerpt from my novel in progress (typos, editing problems and all!)

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A Light That Never Goes Out by Tony Fletcher
I'm not a huge fan of these kinds of books. In some ways, i don't want to know how the sausage is made. Much like I didn't want to know about the relationship between Gordon Lish and Raymond Carver, I hesitated before diving into this book and what y...more
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Tenth of December by George Saunders
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When choosing a book, how important is the company that published it?

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" Hey, Everyone! Check out my interview with poet David McGimpsey as we discuss his latest collection of sonnets Li'l Bastard (Coach House Books, 2012) and his feelings on being nominated for this years Governor General's Award in Poetry. Read it no... " Read more of this review »
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date: September 03, 2012 09:00PM
location: VYou, Canada
description: Hi. I'm answering questions at http://vyou.com/arjunbasu on Sept 3 at 9 PM eastern. Any question. About anything. Especially the dumb ones! I love dumb questions! Just click on the link and go to the site and ask away. Then tune in on Labor Day, or Labor Night - is that a thing? - and watch as I answer the questions one by one. Or two by two if I'm feeling Biblical.
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Arjun Excerpt from novel in progress on Joyland: http://www.joyland.ca/stories/montrea...


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Karen Thanks for befriending me!

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K. Harrington


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