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Publishers Weekly reviews Good Indian Girls

The body of the review is behind a paywall, but here’s the heart of it. Though weird and eccentric, Sidhu’s stories are also empathetic and refreshingly free of the clichés of immigrant narratives. He manages to portray his characters as uniquely Indian without losing sight of their individuality, offering small, piercing looks into the humanity […]

The revolution will be Instagrammed

32 Selfies From Tahrir Square, via Buzzfeed So many reasons to be cautious about Egypt’s immediate future, and little chance of an economically strong and politically stable country, but I can’t help love these images from Tahrir Square. They show something essential about the moment, and the spirit which was the moving force behind much of […]

Government snooping and the Fourth Amendment

Today, over at The Atlantic, Derek Khanna takes on the Fourth Amendment issues and government snooping.   The government’s policies in the NSA’s PRISM program reflect perhaps the perfect storm of public-policy conundrums. This surveillance seems to offer short-term advantages, with the real costs hidden, diffuse, unknown, and, seemingly, far in the future. What, many […]

Buying e-books from indie stores

Not everyone knows this, but you don’t have to buy e-books from Amazon or other big online retailers. You can buy them from your local independent bookstore. Doing this supports indie stores, and it supports writers too (who need indie stores and the venues and sales they provide). Over at Galleycat.com, they show you how.

Wrong turn, or what is it with Utah?

I made a wrong turn and ended up on 93 north when I’d planned to go directly east, to Great Basin National Park. The road led me up to 80 at the Utah border, which I hadn’t planned to go to. Whatever, there I was, so I took the highway east and then south along […]

Nevada By Road

The hundred or so miles around Tonopah, Nevada, offer the darkest skies in the continental United States. I didn’t know this when I was camping by myself in Saulsbury Wash, but learned it later when I drove into town. The owner of the local bookstore even gave me a star finder to use at night. […]

Pre-order at one of Manhattan’s finest indie bookstores

Now available for pre-order at McNally Jackson.

Act Globally, Pre-order Locally

Good Indian Girls available for pre-order at Fort Greene’s own Greenlight Bookstore.

“It’s only a game, he shouted, voice fading on the wind.

Those very words. I could still feel the grip of his fingers where he had held my child’s arm, his hand, large, engulfing it, fingers touching at the tips. A line of grey already infected his beard, though a young man, yet even then retired, a national name. His beard tied back into a second, […]

The Edward Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY

For the last month, I’ve been staying at the Edward Albee Foundation, or the Barn, in Montauk, NY. It’s a retreat for writers and artists that is open only from late-May to early October. This time of year, when Rex Lau and Diane Mayo, two artists who live next door and take care of the […]