I am enough - Am I?

I am enough – Am I?

𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚎𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 – 𝙰𝚖 𝙸? • Deeptalk incoming • Weltenbummelnde. • Für alle, die mitbekommen haben, dass ich eine ganze Weile offline war: Ich lebe noch. Für alle anderen: Who cares. • Ich hatte vor einigen Wochen (inzwischen Monate?) ein Erlebnis, das mich an dem ganzen hier, Bookstagram und allem drum herum, hat zweifeln lassen. Es lag nicht nur an Bookstagram, auch an dem ganzen hinter meinem…

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“After the Holocaust, it has become almost impossible to conceal large-scale crimes against humanity. Our modern communication-driven world, especially since the upsurge of electronic media, no longer allows human-made catastrophes to remain hidden from the public eye or to be denied. And yet, one such crime has been erased almost totally from the global public memory: the dispossession of the Palestinians in 1948 by Israel. This, the most formative event in the modern history of the land of Palestine, has ever since been systematically denied, and is still today not recognised as an historical fact, let alone acknowledged as a crime that needs to be confronted politically as well as morally.” ― Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

11 years ago today, my first novel The Brotherhood was published. 5 years ago today, the second edition of The Brotherhood was published.

The Brotherhood remains my most popular book. I've been talking with some people in TV about making it into a limited TV series. If so, it would be as groundbreaking, if not more so, than the book: the first mystery/drama TV series with mostly Indian-American characters set in the USA, that I can think of.

Because of that, the project still remains an up-hill battle. Almost all American TV series with People of Color are comedies, and despite what they claim, very few industry insiders are interested in financing and screening content that's genuinely original and challenging. I'm looking to connect with more people in the TV/film industry, particularly of South Asian descent, who can make this happen: content acquirers, writers, directors, producers, actors, actresses, agents etc. If you know anyone who can help, please send them my way.

It's been 4 years since the publication of The Run and Hide, the second volume of The Brotherhood Chronicle. Despite getting the least acclaim and having won no awards, this remains my personal favorite book, and a darling for Desai diehards.

The Dance Towards Death was published 3 years ago, and it's won 13 literary honors in that time, my most acclaimed book so far.

In about a month, it will be the 10th anniversary of Good Americans, my most provocative book and a subject of divided opinion. Its anthology sequel, Bad Americans, is my longest and most ambitious book to date, a novel and short story collection in one. I'm working hard on it, and the polished manuscript should be ready to send out to agents etc. around January 2024.

I've stayed the course and maintained my literary independence for more than a decade. Let's see if I can do that and still convince a major publisher to bring Bad Americans out into the literary sphere and get it the wide acclamation and readership I believe it deserves.

The New Wei Literary Movement and its associated Salons are gaining traction. I've met many writers, artists, musicians, actors and filmmakers over the last six months and I hope we've inspired them to produce new dynamic projects.

I'm also working to interview provocative artists of many mediums and produce articles on them. Ultimately I plan to write a book on the wider literary/artistic scene, our tumultuous decade and The New Wei.

Then there are my travels: recently to Germany/Austria/Italy, across the USA and soon to Greece and Turkey too. I know a lot of people have been screaming for me to write a non-fiction book about all these crazy adventures, and that might finally happen.

In addition, there's plenty afoot at the library too: our annual Southeast Queens Author Festival at Cambria Heights Library on 9/30 at 1:30pm, dynamic planned panels for ALA in Baltimore and San Diego, a renovated Teen Center, new art installations, and plenty more.

Things have been busy in the best possible way, and I'm grateful for it.

Frankfurt, I’m glad I met you, but I’m also glad I’m leaving. You have astonished me with the coldest days of spring.

They say you can't help what you are, metallic structures covered in glass poking like stalagmites right through the vegetation. It's been a pleasure to hang around under your architecture, to feel minuscule next to those white shy flowers that inhabit your soils.

Maybe we’ll meet again some other spring.

Na ihr verrückten Wesen habt ihr schon an eure Karmapunkte gedacht?

Am 21.11.2022 erscheint unsere Anthologie Punschparty statt Kaffeeklatsch im AUTORENPARADIES Verlag und wir spenden an das Bergische Kinder- und Jugendhospiz Burgholz.

Habt ihr Lust uns zu unterstützen? Schaut gerne beim auf Instagram beim Verlag vorbei. Auf der Website könnt ihr dann das Taschenbuch vorbestellen.

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The Book Thief: Markus Zusak

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"Opernarbeit: Texte aus 25 Jahren" is a collection of essays and articles written by the German musicologist and opera critic, Sergio Morabito. The book was published in 2018 by Bärenreiter Verlag, and it includes texts that were written by Morabito between 1992 and 2017.

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The reading stairs at the Frankfurt Opera House

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