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While there is much to despair, these moments also help us to think about radically remaking our world, and about new possibilities, even if it is only online for now.

Suchitra Vijayan sits with author Aruni Kashyap to discuss his recent book of short stories His Fathers Disease: Stories

Aruni Kashyap is the author of His Father’s Disease: Stories (Context, 2019), a novel The House With a Thousand Stories (Penguin 2013) and a poetry collection called There Is No Good Time for Bad News (Future Cycle Press, 2021). He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Georgia, Athens. He tweets @AruniKashyap