"...I, of east-west, modern-ancient, wanted to glide like flying squirrels, from areca to date frond, certain I caused trees to sway, not the wind..." Dipika Mukherjee, Dialect of Distant Harbors #DesiReads Desi Books #poetry desibooks.co/desireads-dipi…

What a beautiful list. Look at those covers! Thanks for including The Dream Builders Jenny Bhatt

Love seeing 🦚 The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee on Desi Books's list of the Best Books of January!✨ buff.ly/3HeeQim

A new #DesiReads episode with @raenashirali reading from her latest poetry collection, summonings. Indebted to the docupoetics tradition, these poems investigate the ongoing practice of witch (“daayan”) hunting in India. Listen and read the transcript: buff.ly/3iRwRth

from Bharati Mukherjee’s 1988 essay: “Perhaps it’s this history-mandated training in seeing myself as ‘the other’ that now heaps on me the fluid identities denied to most of my contemporary American counterparts.” #WritingCommunity Desi Books desibooks.co/desilitbiz-com…

DYK we have a free, weekly, no-spam newsletter? 2023-onwards, archives will also be on the website. But we'll be adding some email-exclusive stuff later in 2023 so you can sign up if free if you'd like to get them delivered to your inbox on Fridays. buff.ly/3J8jSOA

New #DesiReads with Rhiya Pau reading from her poetry collection, Routes, where she explores the migratory histories of her ancestors and her own East African-Indian heritage with some delightful Gujlish. Listen/read: buff.ly/3Dke7K5

Popping in very briefly to say I love this 2022 poetry collection by Rhiya Pau (cc. @ArachnePress) for many reasons. Even blurbed it (full disclosure in the episode.) Please take a look and give this debut collection a boost. Thanks.

Thanks Desi Books Jenny Bhatt for putting #AllThoseWhoWander on a January 2023 books recco list. desibooks.co/desibooksreco-…

Loved this collection by Rhiya Pau. 😊 "...yet here we are, being silently groped on the subway where sleight of hand milks you like a cow except unlike a cow, you are no longer sacred." from On Shame.

Great to see #TheBangladeshAnthology on this amazing list of Jan 2023 books. Thanks, Desi Books and Jenny Bhatt. desibooks.co/desibooksreco-…

Over the coming month, we will be winding things down with this platform. This is not a decision we have come to lightly. Since March 2020, we have been spotlighting writers of South Asian origin who were not being given their due attention. Read more: buff.ly/3YlM6tD

Some news. Since Mar 2020, Desi Books has featured 180 individual authors, 23 contributing writers, and well over 1200 books. But everything has its season. And it is time for me to move on. My mission to keep raising the tide of South Asian literature remains strong as ever.🙏🏾

I also read *Dialect of Distant Harbors* by Dipika Mukherjee. I learned of this collection thanks to Jenny Bhatt of Desi Books ! I received an extra copy by chance. Happy to mail it someone else...