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Mahmud Rahman was born in Dhaka, in what was then East Pakistan. His writing life began at twelve when he hammered out — with the help of a jerry-rigged Royal typewriter — six carbon copies of a newspaper and pasted them on the walls of his school in old Dhaka. He came of age in the midst of the upsurge of the late sixties that led to the creation of Bangladesh. During the 1971 war, he was a refugee in Calcutta. In his adult life, he has lived in US cities including Boston, Detroit, Providence and Oakland. He has worked as a factory worker, data entry operator, community organizer and database support techie. Since the early nineties his writing focus has shifted largely to fiction. The stories in his first book Killing the Water were mostl ...more

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The day in 2021 when Mills College announced it would shut down

Four years ago, Mills College in Oakland California announced its financial crisis was so severe it would be closing. The news hit hard among students, staff, faculty, and alums. I had worked at the college twice, for a total of 17 years, and I shared a long post on Facebook. Many of my friends among […]

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	Black Ice by Mahmudul Haque, Mahmud Rahman (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.31 avg rating — 753 ratings — published 1992 — 4 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
	Oakland Noir (Akashic Noir) by Jerry Thompson (editor), Eddie Muller (Editor), Nick Petrulakis (Contributor) 3.72 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 2017 — 8 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
	This Side, That Side: Restorying Partition by Vishwajyoti Ghosh (Curator), Tabish Khair, Arif Ayaz Parrey 3.82 avg rating — 67 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
	Killing the Water 3.97 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	New Anthem by Ahmede Hussain, Monideepa Sahu (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Mahmud Rahman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2009	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 Daily Star Book of Bangladeshi Writing by Kaiser Haq, Fakrul Alam, Mahmud Rahman (Goodreads Author) 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2006	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
	Golden Bangladesh at 50: Contemporary Poems & Stories by Shazia Omar (Editor), Mahmud Rahman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Nadeem Zaman (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2021 — 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

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Syndicates and Societies: Criminal Politics in Dhaka (South Asia in the Social Sciences)

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