Arjun Basu's Blog, page 2

Giller Nominee

Yeah. I wasn't too cool when I found out.

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Size Doesn't Matter. Or Maybe it Does.

Who knows?

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What I Did On My Vacation

(hint: it involves eating).

PLUS: the kinds of people who might like my book.

DOUBLE PLUS: How quickly one becomes a has-been in the book racket.

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Some reviews of Waiting for the Man

I don't read my reviews. Honest. But here are some of them. I've even highlighted the best parts so you don't have to read the whole thing. That would be tedious.

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Finding Waiting for the Man in Australia

Because you can now. It's all here. And includes some gratuitous stupid jokes about Australia.

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The Algorithms of Amazon

It should be the title of the lost play of Oscar Wilde. But it's not. It's about the reality of the modern author. And, um, begging.

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My Wait is Over

And soon yours will too. It's kind of thrilling. And a bit of a relief.

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The real trailer.

Because the other one was, like, a preview or something.

http://youtu.be/Yp4P2-GLPN8

A trailer for a trailer. And a playlist.

So before I create a trailer, I have a, um, pre-trailer. On slideshare of all places.

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And then. The chapter names in Waiting for the Man are all song titles. And so I made a playlist of the chapter names. But I'm old so I used Grooveshark. But there's good music there. I mean it.

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Buying Books

In which I link to a bunch of online retailers before I launch into a defense of your local neighborhood indie bookseller. Also: first launch detail...

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