Khitkhite Buri
@shinjinidey.bsky.social
essayist, lapsed academic, commie propaganda.
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(she/her)
I barely use this site, but I updated my portfolio and would love if you commissioned me/said something nice about my work.
shinjinidey.wordpress.com
shinjinidey.wordpress.com
Shinjini Dey
critic, essayist, and a writer of tales
shinjinidey.wordpress.com
March 30, 2024 at 1:30 PM
I barely use this site, but I updated my portfolio and would love if you commissioned me/said something nice about my work.
shinjinidey.wordpress.com
shinjinidey.wordpress.com
I wrote this! And I'm damned pleased with it! And I'd be even happier if you read it!
"The text is interactive, necessitating the intervention of the reader for categorization of its entropic structures. Genre inflects, demands, and manages expectations anew: it’s a goddamned virus."
Shinjini Dey on Eugene Lim
Shinjini Dey on Eugene Lim
The Haunting Presence of a Network: On Eugene Lim — Cleveland Review of Books
How do you know that this is a narrative?
www.clereviewofbooks.com
January 7, 2024 at 8:49 AM
I wrote this! And I'm damned pleased with it! And I'd be even happier if you read it!
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I wrote about Olga Ravn's incredible My Work for On The Seawall's Nov/Dec issue—motherhood as practice, occupation, and a nationalized spectator sport.
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November 8, 2023 at 7:37 AM
I wrote about Olga Ravn's incredible My Work for On The Seawall's Nov/Dec issue—motherhood as practice, occupation, and a nationalized spectator sport.
ronslate.com/on-my-work-a-n…
ronslate.com/on-my-work-a-n…
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Al Jazeera is still broadcasting from Gaza! They have access to digital satellites so please follow if you can. Tareq Abu Azzoum was just reporting live from Khan Younis.
🔴 Al Jazeera English | Live
Stay Informed: Watch Al Jazeera English Live: @Al Jazeera English, we focus on people and events that affect people's lives. We bring topics to light that o...
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October 27, 2023 at 7:05 PM
Al Jazeera is still broadcasting from Gaza! They have access to digital satellites so please follow if you can. Tareq Abu Azzoum was just reporting live from Khan Younis.
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The UN, WHO and MSF have all lost all contact with their Palestinian staff.
October 27, 2023 at 9:23 PM
The UN, WHO and MSF have all lost all contact with their Palestinian staff.
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Islamic University of Gaza (which has 25,000 students) has been totally destroyed.
BDS NOW!!
BDS NOW!!
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October 20, 2023 at 3:11 PM
Islamic University of Gaza (which has 25,000 students) has been totally destroyed.
BDS NOW!!
BDS NOW!!
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Grateful to @shinjinidey.bsky.social & @seizethepress.bsky.social for not just reviewing my novella but delving deep in this lovely essay. 'Culture is both consumed and cannibalized, ritualized and inevitably lost, birthed and destroyed...Kolkata is, in all its modernity, a city bereft of dragons.'
‘The Mythicisation of Kolkata: Immigration and Culture in The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar’ by Shi...
Indrapramit Das’s second book-length work, The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar, is a novella about a child growing up amidst dragons, set in Kolkata during the turn of the century—undated, except throu...
www.seizethepress.com
October 12, 2023 at 7:17 PM
Grateful to @shinjinidey.bsky.social & @seizethepress.bsky.social for not just reviewing my novella but delving deep in this lovely essay. 'Culture is both consumed and cannibalized, ritualized and inevitably lost, birthed and destroyed...Kolkata is, in all its modernity, a city bereft of dragons.'
What feeds should I follow?
September 29, 2023 at 3:44 PM
What feeds should I follow?
As an editor: editors only really edit your work if they're going out of their way, taking time outside work, delaying, etc. to do it. They don't do it on the (big 5) company dime.
September 29, 2023 at 3:42 PM
As an editor: editors only really edit your work if they're going out of their way, taking time outside work, delaying, etc. to do it. They don't do it on the (big 5) company dime.
Can't believe I wrote this (almost three years ago) about Kolkata and its Bangalis—and here I am now, gallivanting around (the nationalistic) CR Park as if I can't identify the stench of a festering wound.
September 29, 2023 at 3:41 PM
Can't believe I wrote this (almost three years ago) about Kolkata and its Bangalis—and here I am now, gallivanting around (the nationalistic) CR Park as if I can't identify the stench of a festering wound.
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knitting circles should allow non-knitters to join if we’re good at gossip
September 29, 2023 at 12:59 PM
knitting circles should allow non-knitters to join if we’re good at gossip
What's a good Gillian Rose and Jacqueline Rose intellectual-biography-ish piece?
September 21, 2023 at 6:46 PM
What's a good Gillian Rose and Jacqueline Rose intellectual-biography-ish piece?
I'm quite weary of the supplication required to prove my worth, and worn out by the constant desperation present in my performance of competence.
September 14, 2023 at 8:11 PM
I'm quite weary of the supplication required to prove my worth, and worn out by the constant desperation present in my performance of competence.
When will the "you're so good with words" or "how can you like literature so much" stop being a opening address? How to repel these pandering assholes?
September 9, 2023 at 8:20 PM
When will the "you're so good with words" or "how can you like literature so much" stop being a opening address? How to repel these pandering assholes?
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On top of the sicko fiction in the new issue, we've got some baller non-fic too.
Shinjini Dey has an essay on the mythicisation of Kolkata in Indra Das' new book THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR.
Jay Hawking writes about how border and immigration policies are limiting our imaginations in SFF.
Shinjini Dey has an essay on the mythicisation of Kolkata in Indra Das' new book THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR.
Jay Hawking writes about how border and immigration policies are limiting our imaginations in SFF.
Stories in the new issue include:
Dark fantasy set trillions of years after the heat death of the universe (also includes monsterfucking).
Anti-imperialist Filipino folk horror.
An amnesiac sorcerer.
A parade of mutating desert merchants.
Horny pulsating maggot horror.
Dark fantasy set trillions of years after the heat death of the universe (also includes monsterfucking).
Anti-imperialist Filipino folk horror.
An amnesiac sorcerer.
A parade of mutating desert merchants.
Horny pulsating maggot horror.
September 2, 2023 at 1:04 PM
On top of the sicko fiction in the new issue, we've got some baller non-fic too.
Shinjini Dey has an essay on the mythicisation of Kolkata in Indra Das' new book THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR.
Jay Hawking writes about how border and immigration policies are limiting our imaginations in SFF.
Shinjini Dey has an essay on the mythicisation of Kolkata in Indra Das' new book THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR.
Jay Hawking writes about how border and immigration policies are limiting our imaginations in SFF.
Forgot to share the news here, but I also reviewed @indrapramitdas.bsky.social THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR for @seizethepress.bsky.social last week and wrote about myths, the city, and the suggestions and persuasions of his fiction.
www.seizethepress.com/2023/09/04/t...
www.seizethepress.com/2023/09/04/t...
September 6, 2023 at 3:22 AM
Forgot to share the news here, but I also reviewed @indrapramitdas.bsky.social THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR for @seizethepress.bsky.social last week and wrote about myths, the city, and the suggestions and persuasions of his fiction.
www.seizethepress.com/2023/09/04/t...
www.seizethepress.com/2023/09/04/t...
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One of the greats of translation, Edith Grossman, has just died.
Edith Grossman, Who Elevated the Art of Translation, Dies at 87
“You are my voice in English,” Gabriel García Márquez told her. She insisted that her name appear on the covers of books she translated, including with that of Cervantes.
www.nytimes.com
September 4, 2023 at 10:11 PM
One of the greats of translation, Edith Grossman, has just died.
I have a review/essay on Yuri Herrera in @strangehorizons.bsky.social newest issue, meandering through surrealism, translation, Latin American fiction, and Herrera's own claims about writing TEN PLANETS alongside his non-fic debut, A SILENT FURY.
strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...
strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...
Ten Planets by Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman
In any case, Herrera has no faith in technology’s prowess, in “the silence of organs and the systematic ruction of objects,” as he says in “Objects”.
strangehorizons.com
September 5, 2023 at 7:40 AM
I have a review/essay on Yuri Herrera in @strangehorizons.bsky.social newest issue, meandering through surrealism, translation, Latin American fiction, and Herrera's own claims about writing TEN PLANETS alongside his non-fic debut, A SILENT FURY.
strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...
strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...
Moyra Davey, Index Cards
August 19, 2023 at 7:45 PM
Moyra Davey, Index Cards