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A story in Granta
… and a couple of other (very short) stories, from an old old computer
 • Tanuj Solanki
A new anthology featuring my work
And a couple of other cool things…
 • Tanuj Solanki
echoes & originals, again
My 4-week short-story-writing program is accepting new registrations
 • Tanuj Solanki
William Trevor’s architecture of compassion
Plus the necessary invention of Miss Mullover, minor character par excellence
 • Tanuj Solanki
Crossing the Viliya
Social media and the writer’s life
 • Tanuj Solanki
How minor must a minor character be?
The answer might lie in how self-defining their profession is, and whether taking them out of it interests the novelist
 • Tanuj Solanki
Joy in Sebald
… and a couple of discoveries that, I sadly discovered, had already been discovered
 • Tanuj Solanki
A translation win is a win for Indian English
… which is great, except for essentialists who don’t rate us Englishwaalas
 • Tanuj Solanki
Heist, My Sweet
On the inevitable disappointments of crime novels, the absence of heist novels in India, and David Goodis’ The Burglar as novel and film
 • Tanuj Solanki
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Essays, notes on reading, notes on writing, and sometimes a short story.
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