My Pushcart Nomination

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‘After the House Burned Down”

Call for Papers on South Asia and Masculinity

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We invite papers that are sensitive to contradictions, ambiguities, and affective dissonances that surface in the fictional depictions of masculinities due to economic, racial, religious, caste, and sexual hierarchies and conflicts.

Usha Akella I Will Not Bear You Sons

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I have the pleasure of sharing the following new works of art by wonderful writers, with reviews and associated events for their powerful voices

Love's Garden, a novel, by Nandini Bhattacharya

Please join me for the Launch of my novel Love’s Garden at Brazos Bookstore, Houston, TX

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Friends, I have the great pleasure of inviting you to the Book Launch of Love’s Garden, October 27, 2020, 7-8 pm, at Brazos Bookstore, Houston.

The Topeka School

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Ben Lerner’s The Tople School makes you despair a little about parenting.