Announcing the release of Against Storytelling, edited by Amit Chaudhuri – the third book under Westland and Ashoka University’s Literary Activism Imprint.

More details here: indiaeducationdiary.in/westland-books…

Tomorrow, 2nd May: nyrb.com/blogs/events/o…

NYRB Classics Books at NYRB

If you’re in New Haven/ Yale tomorrow, 30th April, feel free to come to this: nyrb.com/blogs/events/s…

Meanwhile, today in Boston: sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/…

NYRB Classics Books at NYRB

Tomorrow, 29th April, 5.30 pm, if you happen to be in Boston and are interested. Details available here: sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/…

The Ashoka University Eight-Day International Creative Writing Workshop in Creative Writing in Prose (Fiction or Non-Fiction)

The 13th international eight-day workshop will start from 29th May 2024.

Please visit the link to know more - ashoka.edu.in/event/the-asho…

Tonight, with the wonderful James Yeh.

.Amit Chaudhuri & Wendy Doniger TONIGHT (6pm) Seminary Co-op.

We are reissuing Chaudhuri's 1st three novels. Brilliant examples of the novel's ability to capture life in art.

'Nothing at all seems to happen, in the most beautifully modulated way.' — Anne Enright

.Amit Chaudhuri will be speaking with Geoffrey O'Brien about his early novels 192books on Friday (4/26) at 6pm.

Join us this Thursday, April 25th, at 6pm CT for a reading and conversation with Amit Chaudhuri, 'Afternoon Raag', 'A Strange and Sublime Address', and 'Freedom Song'. He will be joined in conversation by Wendy Doniger.

RSVP here: ow.ly/R7xw50QL4Fs

If you’re in these cities this Thursday or Friday, feel free to come.

Chicago 25th April:
nyrb.com/blogs/events/a…

New York 26th April:
nyrb.com/blogs/events/a…

The second and final part of my essay on Satyajit Ray and woodblock art in the Gagosian Quarterly is now online: gagosian.com/quarterly/2024…

Bloomington, Indiana - three talks on Monday 22nd April. I will give one at the music department at 1.15 pm; Rosinka delivers the Brangin Lecture at 3; and I have a talk hosted by Creative Writing and others at 5.30. All welcome.

events.iu.edu/bloomington/ev…

events.iu.edu/bloomington/ev…

To mark the publication last year of Sweet Shop: New and Selected Poems, Sumana Roy and I had a conversation about the poems in the book and where they come from: youtu.be/e1bL8ORQz64

A recording of my conversation with Amit Chaudhuri about his poetry, aesthetics, modernism, spatiality, sweet shop(s) and other things is up on the Ashoka University YouTube channel.

youtu.be/e1bL8ORQz64

(I'm sharing it here for those who had asked me to.)

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A personal prose-blanket of warmth since 8 years now when I picked up his first : afternoon raag !

p.s. some bloke borrowed afternoon raag and never returned; glad the person is distant from memory and acquaintances now

Here are the reissues of my first three novels in the NYRB Classics imprint, out in May. I very much like Zoe Guttenplan’s jacket designs for the series.

a gorgeous spread from NYRB Classics and Amit Chaudhuri, coming in may!

You might consider going to this if you’re in London on Saturday; my daughter Aruna is performing: link.dice.fm/o2TWp5kxyIb?sh…

.Amit Chaudhuri will be coming to the U. S. at the end of April for new editions of A Strange and Sublime Address, Afternoon Raag, and Freedom Song.

He'll also be doing events in NYC, Cambridge, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Bloomington. Stay tuned for more info.

South Asian Avant-Garde (SAAG) and Yale South Asian Studies Council are hosting the acclaimed novelist and musician Amit Chaudhuri to discuss his first three novels, A Strange and Sublime Address, Afternoon Raag, and Freedom Song, all of which are being reissued this May by NYRB Classics.1/3