This is 2 week-old news:
I will be presenting a paper on Bhanu Kapil's text Incubation: A Space for Monsters at the &NOW Conference of Innovative Writing and the Literary Arts in October at Buffalo, New York. The conference is hosted by the University at Buffalo, SUNY.
My paper discusses the ways in which Kapil's work is a hybrid of a many different genres, which defies easy categorization, which I believe is for the better.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
Happy Anniversary
I developed a serious case of what I called my "quarter-life crisis" a few months into my 20th year. Now I'm at approximately the 1 year anniversary of this phenomenon. To celebrate this past year of Carpe Diem-ing, I thought that now would be a good time to revisit the list of things that I've accomplished in this whirlwind year:
1. Committed myself to and ran a half-marathon.
2. Got a tattoo
3. Got my ear cartilage pierced
4. Wrote 76 pages of a manuscript that I do not intend on publishing. Overall, a very good foray into creative writing; it was definitely a nice change of pace from expository writing all the time.
5. Emailed Bhanu Kapil and was pleasantly surprised to find that she wrote back.
6. Got another tattoo
7. Roadtrip to Vegas (mostly as a driver)
8. Committed myself to and ran a full marathon (the day after a fairly bad car accident). Makes one appreciate being alive
9. Submitted a proposal to read a paper of mine at the &NOW Conference of Innovative Writing and Literary Arts. It was accepted and I am officially on my way to present my work at my first-ever literary conference (both as a presenter and as an attendee).
10. Really worked on engaging and immersing myself in new media forms for the purpose of primarily networking.
Right now I'm reading Jhumpa Lahiri's work The Interpreter of Maladies. It is a beautiful collection of short stories that in reveal the private aches and longings of various South Asian transplanted individuals. Though there are a number of comical moments in the various stories, they are woven into an overarching melancholic tone of narrative. Lahiri's book-turned-movie, The Namesake, was the first work I read, and I now see that it follows the same privately felt melancholy of its predecessors in The Interpreter of Maladies.
I recently finished The Satanic Verses, the controversial work that brought upon Salman Rushdie the fatwa. Overall, I enjoyed the fragmented and convoluted narrative(s) that break(s) down traditional views of mythology and creates new ones.
More to come later . . .
1. Committed myself to and ran a half-marathon.
2. Got a tattoo
3. Got my ear cartilage pierced
4. Wrote 76 pages of a manuscript that I do not intend on publishing. Overall, a very good foray into creative writing; it was definitely a nice change of pace from expository writing all the time.
5. Emailed Bhanu Kapil and was pleasantly surprised to find that she wrote back.
6. Got another tattoo
7. Roadtrip to Vegas (mostly as a driver)
8. Committed myself to and ran a full marathon (the day after a fairly bad car accident). Makes one appreciate being alive
9. Submitted a proposal to read a paper of mine at the &NOW Conference of Innovative Writing and Literary Arts. It was accepted and I am officially on my way to present my work at my first-ever literary conference (both as a presenter and as an attendee).
10. Really worked on engaging and immersing myself in new media forms for the purpose of primarily networking.
Right now I'm reading Jhumpa Lahiri's work The Interpreter of Maladies. It is a beautiful collection of short stories that in reveal the private aches and longings of various South Asian transplanted individuals. Though there are a number of comical moments in the various stories, they are woven into an overarching melancholic tone of narrative. Lahiri's book-turned-movie, The Namesake, was the first work I read, and I now see that it follows the same privately felt melancholy of its predecessors in The Interpreter of Maladies.
I recently finished The Satanic Verses, the controversial work that brought upon Salman Rushdie the fatwa. Overall, I enjoyed the fragmented and convoluted narrative(s) that break(s) down traditional views of mythology and creates new ones.
More to come later . . .
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