In case you've been thinking of applying, Amit Chaudhuri tells me the deadline is today! (Also, watch out for the two new #LiteraryActivism books, coming soon.) ashoka.edu.in/event/the-asho…

This is a beautiful essay, a deep, empathetic look at my first three novels; but it’s also about the problem of writing about the ordinary, from the point of view of one to whom this is an important question: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-fi…

NYRB Classics Books at NYRB

LitHub has carried Wendy Doniger’s introduction to the NYRB reissue of Freedom Song: lithub.com/a-quiet-roar-w…

NYRB Classics Books at NYRB

Brand new covers for Amit Chaudhuri's first three novels.

Short books of beautiful prose with plenty of atmosphere and novelistic artistry inside. Highly recommend.

The deadline is 17th May. Visit this page for details: ashoka.edu.in/event/the-asho…

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