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  <name><![CDATA[Arjun Basu]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Editor in Chief of enRoute magazine from 2001 to 2007, twice named world's best inflight magazine (2002 and 2003) and named Canada's magazine of the year of the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors (2008), and now Editorial Director for Spafax, one of Canada's largest custom publishers and one of the world's leading providers of in-flight media. I published my first collection of short stories, Squishy, in May 2008 (DC Books). I have a novel in the hamper... Here's a recent review http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=553195 I'm also writing short short stories on Twitter. I call them Twisters and you can read them here: http://twitter.com/arjunbasu]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Carver, Ford, Conrad, Hempel]]></influences>    <hometown>Montreal</hometown>  <born_at>12/14/1966</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Squishy]]></title>
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