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June 3, 2024

The Reeds Now Available for Preorder

My upcoming novel, The Reeds, (ECW Press) is now available for preorder. Please do so! The book itself will be published Oct 15. I'm quite proud of it, or as proud as a writer can be with a book, which isn't something to measure if we're being honest. But there you go. The novel is available everywhere.
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Published on June 03, 2024 12:04 Tags: novel, preorder, upcoming

August 10, 2016

A Short Story Up at Joyland Magazine

A story inspired by a friend's tale of how her father stopped a neighbour's noisy shindig. Featuring stoned teens, Slayer, cat photos, beer pong, and lots of drinking.

http://www.joylandmagazine.com/region...
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Published on August 10, 2016 17:25 Tags: booze, cats, short-story

March 25, 2016

A New Short Story

Tabulit is a new venture, a website that sells short stories and gives the majority of what it earns to the author. I've posted a short story there called Wild Horses. It's my attempt at noir. And it involves a shoe salesman, horse poop and a lot of punches. This is part one. Part two will be posted next week. Just go to http://www.tabulit.com/

I also wrote a new blog post at my website. Because it had been a while. I talk about what I've been up to, Tabulit, and the sudden death of Garry Shandling. http://arjunbasu.com/archives/hi-reme...
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Published on March 25, 2016 13:27 Tags: garry-shandling, short-story, tabulit

September 9, 2015

The French Translation

Is lovely. Just held it in my hands for the first time today. Wrote about it here: http://arjunbasu.com/archives/and-the...
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Published on September 09, 2015 10:45 Tags: attends-moi, french, translation

August 2, 2015

The Paperback version of Waiting for the Man is out

So I wrote about where to find it. And added a gif of Cary Grant.

http://arjunbasu.com/archives/a-littl...
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Published on August 02, 2015 11:48 Tags: paperback

July 10, 2015

Paperback, French and More

I wrote about Al Pacino. Gilgamesh. Tacos. Art. Cave drawings. And immortality. All because I received a box of the paperback edition of Waiting for the Man (August) and a pdf of the cover of the French edition (October). Here you go: http://arjunbasu.com/archives/just-wh...
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Published on July 10, 2015 11:15 Tags: books, french, paperback

March 22, 2015

The Work, the State of California, and Odds and sods

Basically, this is what I've been up to:

http://arjunbasu.com/archives/this-is...
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Published on March 22, 2015 14:21

February 8, 2015

Here Be Monsters

What's the difference between monsters and writers? Haha, trick question, there is no difference.

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Published on February 08, 2015 12:35 Tags: first-drafts, monsters, writing

January 7, 2015

Scenes From the Making of a Novel

I'm writing. Well, I'm always doing that (I say to myself) but here's some proof. Latest post up on the blog.

http://arjunbasu.com/archives/scenes-...
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Published on January 07, 2015 12:37

October 15, 2014

Me. On the Radio

Trying to sound remotely smart.

http://www.cbc.ca/books/2014/10/arjun...
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Published on October 15, 2014 14:25 Tags: cbc, radio, shelagh-rogers