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Daniel Ford @writersbone.com · 31/12/2024

Best of 2024: @thanki.bsky.social Listen: www.writersbone.com/podcastsarch...

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Temim Fruchter @temim.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

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.

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UMN English @umnenglish.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

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.

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Asha Thanki @thanki.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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.

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UMN English @umnenglish.bsky.social · 11/07/2024

"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 @thanki.bsky.social 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…

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Asha Thanki @thanki.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

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!!

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Asha Thanki @thanki.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

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!!

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Asha Thanki @thanki.bsky.social · 01/08/2023

Drink a paloma with me at the end of the world? 🥹 Thank you Gettysburg Review!

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Asha Thanki @thanki.bsky.social · 01/08/2023

Another app! Commence copy-pasting across everything until I learn better 😂

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