Very happy to publish a short essay in the new issue of Granta 173, focusing on Indian Literature. I wrote about storytelling aesthetics in Assamese literature or in the literature written in the Indian languages. Excited to be part of this issue!

July 2026, from Harper Via

Decatur Book Festival Keynote: Decatur Book Festival Keynote: So excited to be part of this event tomorrow! If you are in Atlanta, please join us!

What an honor to be part of this mammoth book of Indian short stories edited by A. J. Thomas and published by Aleph Book Company! I have three entries here : my short story “For the Greater Common Good”, which is about a traditional healer’s family in Assam set against armed insurgency; and two

Penguin’s new anthology of stories from Northeast India! My story “Skylark Girl” from the collection THE WAY YOU WANT TO BE LOVED is included here along with two other short stories that I translated : Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi’s “The Smell of Bamboo Blossoms” & Anuradha Sarma Pujari’s “No Man’s Land.”

Thank you to Gauri Awasthi and @theoffingmag.bsky.social magazine for publishing this interview

"Is it possible to write in English by remaining acutely aware of and consciously borrowing from Indigenous and vernacular aesthetics?" From a new Q&A with Aruni Kashyap, author of The Way You Want To Be Loved, and editor Gauri Awasthi. @arunikashyap.bsky.social theoffingmag.com/interviews/q...

📚🎙️ “There is no proper Northeastern story, there are no proper Indian stories, because human life is so diverse and so spectacular and so surprising that there cannot be a certain kind of story from one community.” A conversation with @arunikashyap.bsky.social:

📚🎙️ “I want to see people like me in literature. Where are the people from Northeast? Where are the people from Assam in Asian-American writing? So that was one of the earliest, most basic desires to write.” A conversation with @arunikashyap.bsky.social‬:

📚🎙️ “There is no proper Northeastern story, there are no proper Indian stories, because human life is so diverse and so spectacular and so surprising that there cannot be a certain kind of story from one community.” A conversation with @arunikashyap.bsky.social‬:

📚🎙️ “Literature from Assam challenges what people understand as Indian literature. Because people have seen India as the biggest democracy, but they have not seen India as a force that has brutalised its own people.” A conversation with @arunikashyap.bsky.social‬:

📚🎙️ “We see a lot queer stories where the ending is very tragic. I think it keeps on telling us that this is how your life is going to be. So it was my desire to rewrite the ending of these two lovers.” A conversation with @arunikashyap.bsky.social‬:

🎙️📚New episode of the #SouthasiaReviewofBooks podcast! A conversation with the Assamese writer @arunikashyap.bsky.social on crafting stories on love, resistance and belonging set against the long shadow of violence in India’s Northeast: www.himalmag.com/podcast/arun...

Tune in to our latest Southasia Review of Books episode for the full conversation with @arunikashyap.bsky.social on his new collection of short stories, 'The Way You Want to Be Loved'. 🎧Spotify: spoti.fi/4557fiy 🎧 Apple Podcasts: apple.co/44Z2YNr 🎧Youtube: youtu.be/btapvkwrTxU

📚🎙️“Why should I let the state and other horrific forces that are brutalising society take centre stage in my art? I don't want to give the state that much space. It already assumes too much space.” A conversation with @arunikashyap.bsky.social‬: buff.ly/ehmY7sr

📚🎙️ “I think the new generation of writers are going to change the conversation about queer writing from Assam. It is small in number, but I think that they are making a significant impact.” A conversation with @arunikashyap.bsky.social‬: buff.ly/S37UkUM #PrideMonth

Listen to me speaking about my short story collection at the Georgia Public Radio ~

Speaking in New York at this panel at the Rainbow Lit Fest on May 10th! It is a Saturday! Come ask us questions! 2025 Rainbow Book Fair Panel Asian Love Stories: Romance, Resistance, and Revolution Saturday, May 10th, 3.00-4.15 PM 208 W 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 (room tba)

We’ve been sitting on this news for a minute and are so delighted to FINALLY share that the brilliant Lucy Cleland has joined The Frances Goldin Agency as VP and Senior Agent! We are enormously lucky to have her on the team 🎉

Speaking in New York at this panel at the Rainbow Lit Fest on May 10th! It is a Saturday! Come ask us questions! 2025 Rainbow Book Fair Panel Asian Love Stories: Romance, Resistance, and Revolution Saturday, May 10th, 3.00-4.15 PM 208 W 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 (room tba)

Delighted to share my translation of Anuradha Sarma Pujari's story @wwborders.bsky.social wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

A finalist for the @‌armorysqprize.bsky.social , this story by Anuradha Sarma Pujari (tr. @arunikashyap.bsky.social ) narrates the intense atmoshpere at a student hostel in Delhi. buff.ly/FuK7y0q

I will be speaking at Yale University tomorrow. Please come if you are around! macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/ev...

Had a wonderful time at The College of William & Mary’s translation festival. We need to know how the rest of the world lives and imagines; can’t do that without translators. US publishing has a 3% problem which means only 3% of titles are translated; and South Asian Lit in translation? 0.66%!

“You can’t wait for the world to be perfect in order to write. You’d be waiting forever.” querent.substack.com/p/some-postc... Thank you @alexanderchee.bsky.social

“In June, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass signed an adopted $12.8 billion budget that cut the fire department’s funding by more than $17.5 million, or around 2 percent of the previous year’s budget of $837 million.”

In this #podcast for New Books Network, I speak with Professor Arnab Dutta Roy about Global Anglophone Literature, writing in multiple voices, and the commitment to write political fiction : newbooksnetwork.com/the-way-you-...

Numerous fires have been sparked across Southern California amid extreme fire danger weather. Listen to LAist for continuous updates on the radio at 89.3 FM or via the LAist app. And LAist.com has even more resources. Wildfire overview: ow.ly/VWjJ50UCeQs More ⬇️

Spent a wonderful day as a Visiting Writer with the writers at the Converse University MFA program in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Lovely to spend time with my friend Geoff Herbach who directs the program!

Here are some amazing short story collection recommendations. This year, I also really loved Ben Shattuck’s moving The History of Sound and @arunikashyap.bsky.social’s fantastic The Way You Want to Be Loved!

In this latest episode of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social , I had the pleasure of speaking with my dear friend, @arunikashyap.bsky.social , about his exceptional new collection of stories, titled The Way You Want To Be Loved. Please check it out. newbooksnetwork.com/the-way-you-...

Beautiful essay by UGA PhD student TIna Borah on Assamese writer Reena Rajbangshi’s fiction on racial discrimination in the United States within the South Asian community: scroll.in/article/1073...

The mandatory Publishers Marketplace screenshot ~

“UnitedHealthcare insures over 49 million Americans, and the company generated $281 billion in revenue last year... The insurance giant is notorious for denying coverage, deploying an artificial intelligence tool that has an error rate of roughly 90%, according to a lawsuit filed last year.”

Amazing day to make this utterly hideous announcement

Excited to share the news that my translation of Anuradha Sarma Pujari's "Ten Love Stories and a Novella of Despair" has a publisher: Westland Books will publish this collection & the wildly popular novella "Ejon Ishwarar Sandhanot". Thanks a ton to Mita Kapur for securing the deal!!

Immensely grateful to Michael MacBride for reviewing "The Way You Want To Be Loved" : www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYvj...

Glad to hear that

Very excited for the final manuscript but also this story of what didn't make it.

Video of my talk at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, where I speak with the wonderful Tracy K. Smith about fiction writing, my novel, and the jilted, unconsoled stories that don't make it into the final manuscript ~ www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT0V...

Join us on December 3 at 10 PM EST for the Steinbeck Fellows' fall virtual reading, followed by a Q&A session with the audience. Excited to share the stage with the brilliant Desiree and Emily and engage in conversation with them and the attendees! Register here: bit.ly/SteinbeckFall

I created a South Asian languages and literatures starter pack! I’m sure I missed many people. If you are a translator, linguist, scholar, or even a dabbler or dilettante, please let me let me know in the comments and I will add you. go.bsky.app/AFjHSX6

It was such a privilege and honor to have Tracy K. Smith as my interlocutor at my talk today! Thank you, everyone - the colleagues at Radcliffe and friends — for the support and lpge! A full video of the reading and conversation is coming soon!

Thank you, dear @theferocity.bsky.social for your love and support! 😍

Novelist Aruni Kashyap is in conversation poet Tracy K. Smith about his work and one especially vital idea they worked toward together is this: It’s challenging but necessary for us to remember that our HEALING does not have to come at the expense of other people’s HARM.

I will be reading from my novel at Radcliffe Institute today. You can watch it online if you are not at Harvard : www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2024-a...

Dear New Haven friends, I will be reading from my new book at Yale University on April 1. Please mark the date!