Ranbir Singh Sidhu's Blog, page 7

Good Indian Girls on the Nook and iPhone, people!

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GOOD INDIAN GIRLS

  Purchase today & support indie bookstores Greenlight Books McNally Jackson Word Books Community Powell’s   Also at: Amazon Barnes & Noble   In twelve startling and vividly imagined stories, Ranbir Singh Sidhu overturns the lives of ordinary Indians living in America to bring us a bold debut collection, Good Indian Girls. “Achingly merciless, London-born […]

Pullman calls illegal downloading “moral squalor”

Over at The Guardian, Philip Pullman calls any form of illegal downloading “moral squalor” and equivalent to stealing money right out of an artist’s pockets. I’m a strong defender of copyright. I find apologists for illegal downloading and the net anarchists who argue that all information should be free to be both delusional and dangerous. […]

While Karl Kraus fiddles, Franzen dithers…

There’s much to think about and argue over in Franzen’s new essay on Karl Kraus (and a lot that resonates for me), but in the end I wonder if he’s saying anything at all. It seems more as if he’s reduced himself to an attitude, and that he’s not particularly convinced himself. The argument seems […]

Launch of The Happy Hypocrite, Issue 6

Launch of The Happy Hypocrite – Freedom, Issue 6 edited by Lynne Tillman 21 September 2013, 7.00pm onwards Artists Space 55 Walker Street New York NY 10013 Readings by: Yasmine El Rashidi Ranbir Singh Sidhu Robin Coste Lewis Sarah Resnick Followed by a discussion with Lynne Tillman and participants. To purchase this title please visit the […]

Praise from Booklist

On GOOD INDIAN GIRLS: With adeptly drawn characters, Sidhu demonstrates a dexterous grasp of the human psyche, while the prevalence of dark twists displays his love of the fatalistic. This propensity for the morose will be of-putting for some but is sure to please those with a taste for black humor and shades of the […]

Like there ever was an escape hatch

In Bookforum, William T. Vollman meditates on what it means to be an American and also to disappear, if that’s possible anymore, or if it ever was. James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales retail the now quaintly preposterous exploits of a self-sufficient woodsman who, with his loyal Chingachgook, adventures deep into near-virgin forest, where he does […]

GOOD INDIAN GIRLS gets STARRED review in Kirkus!

Achingly merciless, London-born author Sidhu’s 12 short stories sharply delineate the edges of identity and sanity… These haunting tales simultaneously attract and repel, enchant and shatter, evoking the ambiguous relationships between past and present, others and self… Deftly sifting through a range of less-often-visited emotions, Sidhu creates inscrutable characters inhabiting bewildering circumstances… Smart, provocative and […]

Good Indian Girls– the final cover

And it looks gorgeous. Many thanks to the great folk at Soft Skull, especially the designer Rebecca Lown. They did a fantastic job.

For 134 quid…

I’m no fan of scalpers and jackasses who way overcharge for what should cost a nominal amount, but this is just amusing. Someone in the UK’s decided to sell the Indian edition of my book for a cool 134.70– that’s pound sterling, not dollars. I’m glad you think my work’s worth so much, but honestly, […]