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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

3 years

Some years ago, I was lucky to take a class with Denis Johnson, who dressed like a card-shark, in flashy jackets and (unlike a card-shark) wept over sentences. He gave my class a 69-page list of writing quotes he returned to frequently. Posting it here:

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3 years

Reading MFA applications right now; the most referenced writer in the cover letters, BY FAR, is the great @carmenmmachado (also true of applications last year).

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4 years

the real editing only starts after you hit send. 🤦🤦🤦

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@kmahaj

4 years

if & when the pandemic ends, we're gonna be subjected to some inane think pieces. let's use this thread to (collectively) predict them. an example: "the pandemic: was it secretly good for humanity?"

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Now I'm remembering other stuff. Such as: his wife, when she read his work, was only allowed to say one of three things about it: Elvis, Genius, or Shakespeare.

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3 years

One of the most charming things about him was how much he loved self-help books like "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron. He woke up every morning and free-wrote 3 pages (as per Cameron's instructions) and then flushed them down the toilet (he may have invented this part).

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@kmahaj

7 years

The shootings against Indians moved me to write a piece about being an Indian in Austin, TX. @nytimes @nytopinion :

Opinion | What My Red State Sees in Me (Published 2017)

I’m an Indian in America. I could be anything: a terrorist, an engineer, an ally.

www.nytimes.com

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@kmahaj

3 years

the cozy rashomon-lite feeling of sitting down to read the 6th review of a book you will never read. is this the closest we get, textually, in modern times, to reading a serialized novel? gonna try to describe this emotion below...

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@kmahaj

8 years

Really hope this isn't fake news: "The Association of Small Bombs" is one of @nytimesbooks 's 10 Best Books of 2016:

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

3 years

the responses to this thread remind me that denis johnson was the (unspoken) consensus "great american writer" -- because he didn't (embarrassingly) bat hard for that position & because the work was full of blazing irregularities and eccentricity and leaping prose

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

3 years

few others have solved writerly marital strife so elegantly

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@kmahaj

3 years

Denis Johnson (what a madman, god bless him) said to us, "I don't love Graham Greene, I think I AM Graham Greene."

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@kmahaj

2 years

@alorentzen @JamilJanKochai @nytimesbooks @NewYorker I've never felt this way about a review, but the combo of imperialist viewpoint + disproportionate attention to 3 pages + fact errors makes me think @nytimesbooks should withdraw this review.

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@kmahaj

3 years

many years after going clean, denis johnson took shrooms for a magazine piece to see how his style changed while on shrooms. turns out: not at all.

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@kmahaj

6 years

I interviewed the polymathic @DrSidMukherjee about his work, his relationship with India, and his darker, Dostoevskyian moments for the anthology "Peerless Minds." Here's an excerpt in @MumbaiMirror :

‘My Indian identity is incidental’

The Pulitzer-winning doctor-author on what it takes to go beyond boundaries, both geographical and intellectual.

mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

4 years

Only posting this coz i'll never be on the same list as Philip Roth again coz he dead:

The Book Review’s Best Books Since 2000

Looking for your next great read? We’ve got 3,228. Explore the best fiction and nonfiction from 2000 - 2023 chosen by our editors.

www.nytimes.com

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

5 years

I went to South Africa & India to write about the three corrupt Indian brothers who pulled off a soft coup in South Africa--"capturing" the highest reaches of the government, including the Presidency. @VanityFair

VANITY FAIR

@VanityFair

5 years

Meet the three small-time investors who hijacked an entire country—one bribe at a time

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

3 years

The process of writing a novel is good for only one thing: making you appreciate the previous novel, which you otherwise hate.

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

3 years

When he taught the class, Denis Johnson was pretty obsessed with how writers should avoid "is" (and other "to be" formulations) as much as possible. Which, of course, was not borne out by his own work at all.

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@kmahaj

3 years

As a student at Iowa, Denis Johnson told me, he lived above the scientist who synthesized experimental psychedelics for the U of I. You can imagine how that went.

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

3 years

This strikes me as one of the first meta-mass-shootings, where the perpetrator is ready with a narrative about his psychosis ("sexual addiction")--as if mass shootings were now an explainable "slip-up" for a certain type of man, on par with politicians who cheat on their wives

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@kmahaj

4 years

Today, on the 10th anniversary of the BP Oil Spill, @francescamari uncovers an astonishing case of corruption: read the story of the Texan lawyer who helped win a $2.3B settlement for 40K Vietnamese fishermen WHO DIDN'T EXIST: @TheAtlantic

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@kmahaj

4 years

curious to hear your stories about the mental breakdowns you suffer when you finish a long imaginative project and suddenly have to face life again

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

3 years

Fascinated by how much writing progresses through subliminal "word stickiness." You use the word "back," for example, and then it reappears two sentences later in a different context, because the mind couldn't let go of it. Paragraphs are secret ladders of these sticky words.

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@kmahaj

7 years

I like to believe that all the people of my generation are approaching their 15 GB Gmail limits together.

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

9 years

I wrote about "The Making of Asian America" for @NewYorker 's @pageturner :

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@kmahaj

5 years

India's most obsessive and passionate flaneur, @thedelhiwalla , is trying to profile 1% of Delhi's population. I decided to profile 1% of HIS life @NewYorker :

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

4 years

Daily occurrence: I email myself a file to back it up on Gmail; then, two seconds later, I see "Inbox (1)" and excitedly check to see who's emailed me. German word for this feeling/act?

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@kmahaj

5 years

I traveled to South Africa & small-town India to understand how 3 corrupt Indian brothers pulled off a soft coup in South Africa--"capturing" the highest reaches of the government, including the President. @VanityFair :

How the Gupta Brothers Hijacked South Africa Using Bribes Instead of Bullets

It started with black market rations and ended with “the wedding of the century.” Novelist Karan Mahajan travels to India and South Africa to understand how three small-time investors fleeced an...

www.vanityfair.com

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

3 years

he said (as he has perhaps said elsewhere) that 'tree of smoke' took 25 years to write

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

1 year

I loved writing this story and am grateful to have it out in the @NewYorker today. Thanks to Willing Davidson for excellent edits, and to the great @fraubux , as always, for being my sounding board.

“The True Margaret,” by Karan Mahajan

Meera moved to London from India only to discover that her new husband already had a wife in the city.

www.newyorker.com

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

3 years

Some stray/leftover thoughts from the super-fun panel last night (thread): 1) Philip Roth's careerism was directed not at being published but at securing a place in posterity: more prizes & escaping cancellation before death. Dying right around Me2 was the ultimate career move.

Bookforum Magazine

@bookforum

3 years

Moderated by Bookforum editor in chief Michael Miller, writers @xlorentzen , @hujane , @kmahaj , and @mervatim will debate professionalism, self-mythology, and how to make a living—and a life—as an author today. Attendance is free! RSVP here for the link:

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@kmahaj

3 years

he turned it into great fiction, but i wouldn't want his harrowing life. for ex., denis johnson told a story about going on a 20-day silent retreat which ended with him so panicked that he set about wrecking his life for a year (including reporting suicidally in war-torn places)

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@kmahaj

3 years

My piece on India's short-lived "golden age" of TV under Modi's rule @nybooks : Special thanks to @tupurc5 and Shazia Iqbal for their insights as I wrote this.

India’s Streaming Auteurs | Karan Mahajan

My brief love affair with Bollywood—India’s mainstream Hindi-language cinema—began when I was ten, in 1994, with the release of a film called Hum Aapke

www.nybooks.com

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@kmahaj

3 years

Very few books I have read richly reward re-reading like JM Coetzee's "Elizabeth Costello." It always makes me shudder (especially the "lesson" about "The Problem of Evil") and feel implicated.

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

4 years

No one is more disabused about the Indian family than WhatsApp autocorrect on my phone: it just changed "dadima" to "sadomasochism."

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

6 years

Excited to be part of this @Criterion

Criterion Collection

@Criterion

6 years

In anticipation of our INGMAR BERGMAN’S CINEMA release next month, every Friday we’ll be premiering an essay featured in the book accompanying our box set! Stay tuned for essays by Molly Haskell, Sarinah Masukor, Fernanda Solórzano, Karan Mahajan, Alexander Chee, & Wesley Brown!

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

4 years

the only way i've matured as a writer: i no longer change text to garamond to convince myself it's good (mainly b/c, once you're out of your 20s, you don't think garamond is good)

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@kmahaj

8 years

"Wonderful...smart, devastating, unpredictable...buy this one." @nytimesbooks on "The Association of Small Bombs":

‘The Association of Small Bombs,’ by Karan Mahajan (Published 2016)

A novel insists that we consider — and possibly even like — the people who are drawn to terrorism.

www.nytimes.com

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

7 years

taking a twitter break. too bad i won't be able to hear every piece of news 1,000,000 times over.

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

3 years

i wonder, if one's mind were not polluted by tags like "the novel" or "the short story," what natural length of story one would gravitate toward

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

9 years

India's great feminist novel was written by a former terrorist. I write about it here for @NewYorker 's @pageturner : http://t.co/q2LJN3p8xI

India’s Forgotten Feminist Epic

“This Is Not That Dawn,” by the Hindi writer Yashpal, has much to teach us about the continuing crisis of sexual violence in India.

www.newyorker.com

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

10 months

My 2 cents on Nobel award: Norwegians shouldn’t be allowed to write books called MELANCHOLY. It’s as if I’d titled my best novel MANGO.

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

3 years

never wrote better than when i was 26 and knew nothing and my prose was powered purely by guesswork

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

4 years

genuine question: why do politicians live forever?

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

3 years

I am reminded that @lucekel , who was in the same class, had some fantastic remembrances here:

Kelly Luce

@lucekel

7 years

I was lucky to be in Denis Johnson's workshop at the Michener Center two years ago. He was an unorthodox and beloved teacher. Some memories:

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@kmahaj

3 years

Enjoying the @TriciaLockwood - @laurenoyler “internet novel” review-bouquet (though I haven’t read either book yet). Q: what were some “internet” novels BEFORE the internet? Thinking of “Herzog,” in which the character writes wild notes (=tweets/emails/comments) to public figures.

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

3 years

@MoiraDonegan yep. we forget that young people still turn to books for "instruction" and not all books or authorial lives provide "good" instruction--because they are time capsules. this is not an argument against the books but against how we mythologize writers and their (often selfish) lives

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

6 years

I traveled to Zimbabwe in December after a coup deposed 93-year-old dictator Robert Mugabe. Here's the piece I wrote about it @newrepublic :

After the Strongman

A coup in Zimbabwe brought down the dictator Mugabe. But can this mean the start of a real democratic era?

newrepublic.com

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

3 years

Some history: @NewYorker

The Two Asian Americas

A new book by Erika Lee explores how systemic racism has pervaded the Asian-American experience.

www.newyorker.com

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@kmahaj

3 years

love how, with each new review you read, the further you are from reading the book...as if the reviews are coalescing into an alternate reality that will smother the book itself

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@kmahaj

4 years

when people ask if i like fiction or non-fiction i always say, 'there are very fine people on both sides.'

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

8 years

You know the world is in a bad way when the results of an election in Austria can bring tears to your eyes.

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

7 years

My review of Arundhati Roy's long-gestating second novel, "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness," for @nytimesbooks :

Arundhati Roy’s Return to the Form That Made Her Famous (Published 2017)

In her first novel since the legendary “God of Small Things,” Roy writes of a group of outcasts who come together during a protest in India.

www.nytimes.com

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@kmahaj

3 years

love meeting friends who have reviewed a book. me: great review! sounds like an amazing book. them: hated it. me: oh. a fun way to learn who is dispensing awards, MFA fellowships, racial/gender justice morality etc these days.

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@kmahaj

3 years

News = first draft of history Twitter = first draft of daft think-piece Movie = first draft of sequel Novel = first draft of review of novel and other first drafts...

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@kmahaj

5 years

"Here, I remember feeling, was a man who had dealt so little in ideas that every idea he had now struck him as a good one." This is a dream pairing of writer and subject: @AatishTaseer on @ImranKhanPTI . @VanityFair

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@kmahaj

3 years

Distressed by the way Modi & co have been censoring and attacking streaming shows in India, but glad to have the opportunity to bring Anurag Kashyap, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Jaideep Ahlawat, and others into the pages of the @nybooks :

India’s Streaming Auteurs | Karan Mahajan

My brief love affair with Bollywood—India’s mainstream Hindi-language cinema—began when I was ten, in 1994, with the release of a film called Hum Aapke

www.nybooks.com

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@kmahaj

3 years

Have improved a ton by working with magazine editors, but, in conversations with friends, have noticed a trend: the more the magazine world contracts, the more editing approaches the quality of OCD: *we can't keep the apocalypse at bay, so here--here's your 1000th edit.*

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

8 years

What's it like to be an Asian American writer? I ask @Jennybagel & @hiwildflower @VICE :

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@kmahaj

4 years

devastating photo essay on the february 2020 anti-muslim delhi riots by sandy ford in @thecaravanindia :

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@kmahaj

3 years

it's also a mini-experiment in how PR permeates an ecosystem...you read 5 reviews that say exactly the same thing, parroting the PR copy, and then you get one that's genuine opinion, and then everything before is cast in doubt

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@kmahaj

4 years

based on what all of you are watching, it's clear that one of the casualties of the pandemic has been...taste.

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@kmahaj

8 years

I profiled @MAOrthofer , who has reviewed 3500+ works of world lit @ 5 books/week for 16 yrs. @NewYorker @pageturner :

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@kmahaj

3 years

. @xlorentzen points out the "thrill of watching the critic integrate a work into his/her own framework iteratively." i'd go further: i'd read a great critic even if it was revealed that the book he/she/they were reviewing didn't exist.

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@kmahaj

3 years

Enjoying writing emails to my literary friends in a style that always leaves a 15% chance that I'm the literary scammer.

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@kmahaj

3 years

nothing more satisfying than the ultra-literary book that has been hyped for months, is released, and is met by a flock of timid critics who won't call it bad. love how elliptical reviewers get to avoid saying it. like reading 'remains of the day.' i become an opinion detective.

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@kmahaj

4 years

nothing funnier than being in a room full of english-speaking indian writers all trying to prove they're more "authentic" than the other.

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@kmahaj

4 years

The novel that best captures the political and social unrest of our times...was published in 1962. I wrote an essay about Doris Lessing's "The Golden Notebook" for @nytimesbooks :

Doris Lessing’s ‘Golden Notebook’ and Our Era of Unrest (Published 2020)

Lessing’s 1962 novel is far from a manifesto. But in its embrace of chaos and split identities, it captures the mood of both its time and ours.

www.nytimes.com

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@kmahaj

4 years

just realized i'm the age that princess diana was when she died in 1997 (36). christ. back then, at the wise age of 13, i remember thinking: god, this is tragic, but at least she had a long, full life.

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@kmahaj

8 years

For July 4, I wrote about my "years in the small-talk wilderness" in America @CultureDesk @NewYorker :

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@kmahaj

8 years

. @TIME was one of the few magazines my parents subscribed to, so it's nice to be on its list of best books of 2016:

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@kmahaj

4 years

mind still blown that COURTNEY LOVE is PAULA FOX'S GRANDDAUGHTER. what else have you m--f--ers been hiding from me?

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

4 years

. @SalmanRushdie once wrote about how it felt to know that the latest film in the cinema was going to be a Fellini or a Bergman or a Kurosawa. The only thing I feel this way about are @fotoole 's absolutely searing pieces for the @nybooks :

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

3 years

Gonna throw myself a giant zoom birthday party next year just to troll everyone

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@kmahaj

3 years

This stunning @kathrynschulz piece is further proof that she can write about literally anything--two separate journeys to spot a snow leopard, forty years apart, for example--and make it feel like the most urgent subject in the world: @NewYorker

What Do We Hope to Find When We Look for a Snow Leopard?

Nature writers, desperate for a glimpse, trek toward lofty goals—and away from uncomfortable realities.

www.newyorker.com

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@kmahaj

3 years

Hate how MS word slows down terribly when you cut a big chunk using Track Changes. Computers are dumb and can't hold two opposing thoughts in their heads at the same time.

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@kmahaj

3 years

In short, I want to live in a world full of extremely strong opinions about things that don't matter (books) because that is a world in which I feel safe.

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

3 years

Participating in a panel about careerism for my career. Tonight! At 7 PM EST. With @mervatim , @hujane , @xlorentzen :

Don’t Stop Until All Your Enemies Are Dead!

DON'T STOP UNTIL ALL YOUR ENEMIES ARE DEAD! A conversation on survival and style in American letters

www.eventbrite.com

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@kmahaj

3 years

@DanielTorday yeah felt i had to do at least one good thing for humanity during this pandemic lol

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

11 months

Super fun to write about THE STROKES for THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: @nybooks (thanks to @janaprikryl for great edits)

A Brief Efflorescence | Karan Mahajan

In the late 1990s, sitting at my computer in New Delhi, using a sputtering dial-up connection, I discovered rollingstone.com, NME.com, pitchforkmedia.com,

www.nybooks.com

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@kmahaj

3 years

books are such disappointments; reviews are so certain. how can the former compete?

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@kmahaj

7 years

Deeply honored and thrilled. Thank you.

Henry Louis Gates Jr

@HenryLouisGates

7 years

Karan Mahajan ( @kmahaj ) wins 2017 @AnisfieldWolf fiction award for “The Association of Small Bombs”

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

8 years

I've been reading n+1 since I was about 1+1, so this excerpt from my novel, on their site, means a great deal to me.

n+1

@nplusonemag

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"This is what I felt about NY. It was a place you could waste your whole life without thinking once about others."

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4 years

"the pandemic: did it change pooping habits forever"

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@kmahaj

3 years

my dream is to be considered one of the great cat person commentators of all time

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@kmahaj

3 years

i have neglected to say something important here: a lot of critics write better than the authors of the books they are reviewing. it's one reason i am addicted to reading critics -- despite mistrusting many of their opinions.

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@kmahaj

4 years

ideas for authors who have addressed the same subject in depth in both fiction AND reported non-fiction AND have done it well in both forms?

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@kmahaj

3 years

reviews are an alternative reality in which the word "boring" does not exist. another reason i never read the books: there's a high chance they're just...boring.

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@kmahaj

3 years

One point we didn't make: it is very hard, almost impossible, to "fake" or "strategize" your way into writing a good novel that people will read past the 1-year hype expiration date. In other words, it is hard to translate careerism into GOOD ART.

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@kmahaj

3 years

Autofiction is what happens when the career choice of being a writer becomes so difficult that it can be your only subject.

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@kmahaj

3 years

i read criticism because it ISN'T news, it ISN'T sociology, It ISN'T fact, it ISN'T literature, it ISN'T confession and thank God: it ISN'T a fucking book. writing about writing is the purest writing.

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@kmahaj

7 years

a plea: respond to art about race with art, not think-pieces.

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@kmahaj

3 years

Love it when novelists are, like, “imagine a world in which the internet stops working!” You mean: 1993?

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

9 years

So excited to share the cover of my new novel 'The Association of Small Bombs' - @VikingBooks , March 2016. http://t.co/buxvD5NcVs

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

5 years

"With the 'Mr. Palomar' translation [Italo Calvino] developed a crush on the word 'feedback.' He kept inserting it in the text and I kept tactfully removing it." - William Weaver, Calvino's translator:

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Karan Mahajan

@kmahaj

7 years

terrorism: a crime of the city that obsesses people in rural areas.

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@kmahaj

4 years

amazing that after all these years of writing, my biggest fear is still whether i'll be comprehended...at all.

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@kmahaj

4 years

2 things i have realized during the pandemic: 1) i only wake up--because coffee. 2) my day is spent making extravagantly precise calculations about how few bodily movements i need to make to complete a given task.

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@kmahaj

3 years

Delighted to be interviewing @sanjenasathian tonight about her excellent debut "Gold Diggers"--loved the lively, precise, unforced prose + the hilariously accurate (but also despairing) take on achievement-fixated Indian-Americans. 7 PM EST. @HarvardBooks

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