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Tejas Desai

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Born

New York City, The United States

Website

http://tejas-desai.com

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Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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William Faulkner, Honoré de Balzac, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Elmore Leonard ...more

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March 2012

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Tejas Desai was born in New York City in the early 1980s. He is the author of The Brotherhood Chronicle, an international crime trilogy with Hindu/Buddhist themes, and The Human Tragedy, a series of short story collections that creates a panoramic portrait of American society. He is also the founder of The New Wei literary movement which seeks to promote provocative and significant narrative artists who are determined to create oeuvres in their respective forms, and advocates a more dynamic multiculturalism in literature.

His articles on literature have been published in HuffPost and other publications and are available to read online. His aesthetic philosophy, readings, lectures, interviews, and international adventures can be followed thro ...more

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We’re living through the Turbulent Twenties, as I and a few others have termed it, and which, in my less than humble opinion, my books clairvoyantly reflect very well. But whether you agree with that or not, it’s clear that many in popular culture are looking back 100 years to the previous tumultuous twenties decade, and my historical favorite, the so-called Roaring Twenties, which

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	The Brotherhood 3.35 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Run and Hide (The Brotherhood Chronicle, Volume 2) 4.60 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dance Towards Death (The Brotherhood Chronicle Book 3) 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Americans 3.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Multiple-Testing Approach to the Multivariate Behrens-Fisher Problem: With Simulations and Examples in Sas 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Tejas Desai wrote a new blog post thenewwei: We’re living through the Turbulent Twenties, a... thenewwei: We’re living through the Turbulent Twenties, as I and a few others have termed it, and which, in my less than humble opinion, my books clair Read more of this blog post »
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Tejas Desai rated a book it was amazing Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I was very impressed with Anthony Veasna So’s Afterparties, a collection of short stories about the Cambodian-American experience. Of the last few highly-praised, major published short story collections I read (granted, all by white American millenni ...more
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Tejas Desai rated a book it was amazing Since I Laid My Burden Down by Brontez Purnell	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ottessa Moshfesh’s work was mentioned in a review (https://readersfavorite.com/book-revi...) of my own short story collection Good Americans (2013) ( https://www.amazon.com/Good-Americans...), so I decided to read her short story collection “Homesick ...more
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Tejas Desai rated a book it was amazing Breakdown Dancer by Vijay R. Nathan (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Vijay R. Nathan's third poetry collection Breakdown Dancer is probably his most personal book, returning to the musings of his first collection Escape from Samsara after the celebrity character-driven Celebrity Sadhana. The themes are similar, dealin ...more
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Ottessa Moshfesh’s work was mentioned in a review (https://readersfavorite.com/book-revi...) of my own short story collection Good Americans (2013) ( https://www.amazon.com/Good-Americans...), so I decided to read her short story collection “Homesick ...more
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Tejas Desai rated a book it was amazing Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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