Over the last couple of days there’s been fair amount of buzz around the fiction writer Edith Pearlman. Her “break-out” story collection, Honeydew, is forthcoming from Little, Brown & Company. … Source: The Unnoticed Writer … [Read more...] about The Unnoticed Writer
Essays
The Terrorist by Fiza Pathan
The Terrorist Many people get many nicknames or tags in life. Some are good which you can live with and some are so embarrassing that you would rather not talk about them. I too have accumulated plenty of nicknames in 25 years of stay on this planet Earth; but one nickname stands out among all the others…something so demeaning and so humiliating that it almost ruined my … [Read more...] about The Terrorist by Fiza Pathan
Born To Read by Fiza Pathan
Born To Read This June, I opened up my very own circulating library for children, teenagers and young adults called Born to Read. By the grace of God it is doing well and I’ve converted all (and when I say all I really mean ‘all’) my students into readers. The idea of opening a library in my tuition house came to me last year in October and from that moment, I have been … [Read more...] about Born To Read by Fiza Pathan
The Sangeeta Library
The Sangeeta LibraryMy name is Danny Roe and I am a eunuch or what we are better known as in India──a Hijra. However, I’m very different from the regular eunuchs of India who beg on the streets and at times enter into prostitution to earn a living. I work on my own. I’m a Hijra who owns a library which deals in second hand books. Therefore one can certainly say that I am a … [Read more...] about The Sangeeta Library
#friendship A Friend Called Richard by Fiza Pathan
A Friend Called Richard by Fiza Pathan Today was a big day for my author friend Lucie Novák as her very first book ‘A Woman with No Strings Attached’ was released today. I was one of the first people to get the book on Kindle and I know that I’m going to enjoy reading the words penned by my friend. However, when I was scanning through the digitalized pages on my tablet I … [Read more...] about #friendship A Friend Called Richard by Fiza Pathan