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trying to make art. book: a thousand times before (2024). 🧿🧿🧿
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Asha Thanki
UMN English
9 months ago
Join us tomorrow for this free reading from newly published MFA alums (and a student)!
#UMNProud
@thanki.bsky.social
@tarikd.xyz
@okwudilin.bsky.social
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First Books Reading
MFA alums Tarik Dobbs and Asha Thanki and MFA student Okwudili Nebeolisa share their debut publications!
https://cla.umn.edu/english/news-events/events/first-books-reading-2
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Daniel Ford
11 months ago
Best of 2024:
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Listen:
www.writersbone.com/podcastsarch...
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Temim Fruchter
12 months ago
City of Laughter paperback launch! 1/14, 6:30pm at Liz's Book Bar in Brooklyn. Come for drinks, snacks, goss, and juicy dinner-party style stories from Julia Phillips,
@sabs.bsky.social
, and
@thanki.bsky.social
! Tickets here it's gonna be FUN!
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Dinner Party Gossip! A City of Laughter Paperback Launch
City of Laughter, the debut novel by Brooklyn author Temim Fruchter, comes out in paperback on January 14th, 2025.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dinner-party-gossip-a-city-of-laughter-paperback-launch-tickets-1111669887559?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Asha Thanki
UMN English
about 1 year ago
MFA alum
@thanki.bsky.social
's novel A Thousand Times Before and retired Prof Charles Baxter's novel Blood Test make multiple lists here! (including "Seriously Good Writing," naturally)
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Books We Love
Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.
https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2024
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Hi! Since I haven’t posted on here really in a year, sharing some links! + more about me and my work
ashathanki.com
+ an easy lil link to my novel, which came out this summer in all her speculative historical intergenerational queer literary glory:
bookshop.org/p/books/a-th...
✌🏾🧿
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Asha Thanki
Asha Thanki is the author of the novel A Thousand Times Before, forthcoming 2024 from Viking Books.
https://ashathanki.com
about 1 year ago
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Asha Thanki
UMN English
over 1 year ago
"I knew I did not want my narrator to struggle with Orientalist otherness, or to write the overdone narrative of East-West push-pulls between children and their parents. I wanted to show love that felt as real to me as the loves I’ve lived" MFA alum
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writes about her debut novel:
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Write More “Indianly,” or Else: Asha Thanki on the Trap of “Authentic” Writing
In 2000, Vikram Chandra wrote for The Boston Review on questions of “authentic writing.” He spent this essay pushing back against gatekeepers who believed in a particular canon of India…
https://lithub.com/write-more-indianly-or-else-asha-thanki-on-the-trap-of-authentic-writing/
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Too many apps and not sure which one we’re using!! But: The days are lengthening again and I get to share with you this cover! This baby of mine! July 2024. Thank you to the Viking team!!
almost 2 years ago
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I’m having coffee at my desk and I finally built my bed frame, and sunlight is bathing this room, so I guess this is my official announcement that I live in Brooklyn now!!
about 2 years ago
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Drink a paloma with me at the end of the world? 🥹 Thank you Gettysburg Review!
over 2 years ago
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Another app! Commence copy-pasting across everything until I learn better 😂
over 2 years ago
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