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Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Over 30 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, december, The Forge, 3:AM, La Piccioletta Barca, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
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Today my short fiction piece "The Ever-Changing Book" came out in the Los Angeles Review. losangelesreview.org/the-ever-cha...

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Three days ago I was in the state of Orissa, India, walking around their museum. This is some of the contemporary artwork that people in Orissa are doing right now. (Courtesy of Odisha State Museum, Bhubaneswar). I was really impressed. 1/2

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Sharing an exquisite story today by Laura van den Berg - “Transfer”. I think what I liked most was the incomplete but palpable sense of the protagonist’s oddness by the end of the story. @conjunctions.bsky.social conjunctions.com/articles/lau...

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Writing’s funny. Initially you’re this space of endless spontaneity, open to new ideas. After 20 stories, you see the things that recur: certain themes, phrases, scenarios you keep gravitating to. No endless well of possibility, but a sprawling, finite eco-system, with its own habits and laws.

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Talked with a friend who teaches at a private school in Istanbul last week. All their colleagues are using AI to do everything - to make lesson plans, school posters, classroom themes, even school plays and musicals. What will be the long-term effect when people don’t do these things anymore?

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After a month-long drought, I got two stories accepted last week – one in a UK anthology, the other in the Quarter(ly) from Quarter Press. @quarterpress.bsky.social

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Great new poem by Natalie Marino - "Portrait of America as Dennis Rader." @nataliemarino.bsky.social villaineralit.com/2025/03/11/p...

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Reading this at the moment. Amazing how many gems are out there once you decide to go outside the ‘Western canon’.

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Istanbul. 1/2

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Watched “Grand Theft Hamlet” (2024) last night. Such a clever idea – in the world of GTA, some Brits try to stage a performance of Hamlet within the game. They keep getting gunned down by online seven year-olds, drunken teenagers, bored students. Weirdly inspiring. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1mu...

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STAND is a UK literary magazine which has published many famous British poets. I’ve always wanted to publish in it, and last month a short fiction I wrote came out in it – “Walking in Circles”. (Sorry it’s behind a paywall.) www.standmagazine.org/cgi-bin/scri...

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My top ten list of literary criticism – no. 5: “Is There An Indian Way of Thinking?” by A. K. Ramanujan. I love this essay because the author answers the question in such a sprawling, confident, unabashed way. It twists, and turns, and mocks itself, and quotes everyone and -thing it feels like.

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I’m not here to slander academics. But if you do write that history of the transatlantic human slave trade, maybe look a little less cheerful when you promote it at your book fair.

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