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Monday, September 27, 2021

Live on Instagram with Out of Print

Out of Print on InstaLive discussing Craft vs Impulse

We are now on InstaLive, almost every Friday evening at 8 pm, in conversation with an Out of Print author as part of a series titled Craft vs Impulse. These engagements have allowed us to expand viewpoints, understand process and share experiences as writers. We talk about voice, impulse, craft, process, ritual, and about the pandemic and how it has affected our thinking and our practice.

Links to our sessions:

Sharanya Manivannan, 17 September 2021

Suhit Kelkar, 3 September 2021

Michelle D'costa, 27 August 2021

Rheea Mukherjee, 13 August 2021

Zui and Indira without Chandrahas Choudhury, 6 August 2021

Ila Ananya, 30 July 2021

Indira Chandrasekhar, 23 July 2021

Readings from Out of Print with Zui and Indira, 16 July 2021

Shikhandin, 9 July 2021

Samhita Arni, 2 July 2021

Zui Kumar Reddy, 25 June 2021

Tanuj Solanki, 18 June 2021

#Craft vs Impulse

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Out of Print Author Series: R K Biswas

Congratulation to R K Biswas on her new collection, Breasts and Other Afflictions of Women. The collection includes the story, Word Among Poets that appears in Out of Print.

Asked about putting together the collection, she said:

I love short stories, as a reader and as a writer. I find them enjoyable and challenging. I seriously don't understand why people say short stories are hard to sell. I usually try out a new writer through his/her short fiction. Most of the stories in this book were written a few years earlier, and published in various journals and anthologies around the world. The oldest - Sunset in the Hills was published in 2001 in Gowanus. I keep writing stories and sending them out. Strangely, it had not occurred to me before to put them together as a collection. When I did get down to the task, I found (after sorting through them) that they needed to be collected into more volumes than one or two. One bunch of stories contain tales with men as the protagonists, and this bunch had women, so the first two collections (the second is on its way) was easier to put together. The subsequent ones will need more planning, I guess. In Breasts and Other Afflictions of Women I've tried to put in those stories that best represented the frailties of women, physical, social and psychological. I hope at least some of the stories resonate with readers.

We, at Out of Print, are quite sure that more than one story will resonate with our readers!

RK Biswas' short story collection Breasts and Other Afflications of Women is a garden of delights. Each story is a nugget of wit and wisdom plumbing the depths of what it means to be a woman at different stages of her life-- single, married, widowed. Biswas writes with an emotionally fluid pen, her descriptions crisp and precise whether we are following an aged maid who finds herself out of a much needed job, or a modern woman desperately seeking a job for self-fulfillment. Biswas takes us to simmering kitchens in India and rainy streets in Singapore, to marital battlegrounds and playgrounds where teachers and students connect and, as her characters find meaning in their lives, so you too will see your hopes and dreams reflected in these heartfelt stories.

Soniah Kamal author of the novel An Isolated Incident, and the satire Hairy Potter: Collected Columns.