Asha Thanki
@thanki.bsky.social
trying to make art. book: a thousand times before (2024).
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Join us tomorrow for this free reading from newly published MFA alums (and a student)! #UMNProud
@thanki.bsky.social @tarikd.xyz @okwudilin.bsky.social
@thanki.bsky.social @tarikd.xyz @okwudilin.bsky.social
First Books Reading
MFA alums Tarik Dobbs and Asha Thanki and MFA student Okwudili Nebeolisa share their debut publications!
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March 20, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Join us tomorrow for this free reading from newly published MFA alums (and a student)! #UMNProud
@thanki.bsky.social @tarikd.xyz @okwudilin.bsky.social
@thanki.bsky.social @tarikd.xyz @okwudilin.bsky.social
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December 31, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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City of Laughter paperback launch! 1/14, 6:30pm at Liz's Book Bar in Brooklyn. Come for drinks, snacks, goss, and juicy dinner-party style stories from Julia Phillips, @sabs.bsky.social , and @thanki.bsky.social ! Tickets here it's gonna be FUN!
Dinner Party Gossip! A City of Laughter Paperback Launch
City of Laughter, the debut novel by Brooklyn author Temim Fruchter, comes out in paperback on January 14th, 2025.
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December 16, 2024 at 2:41 PM
City of Laughter paperback launch! 1/14, 6:30pm at Liz's Book Bar in Brooklyn. Come for drinks, snacks, goss, and juicy dinner-party style stories from Julia Phillips, @sabs.bsky.social , and @thanki.bsky.social ! Tickets here it's gonna be FUN!
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MFA alum @thanki.bsky.social's novel A Thousand Times Before and retired Prof Charles Baxter's novel Blood Test make multiple lists here! (including "Seriously Good Writing," naturally)
Books We Love
Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.
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December 5, 2024 at 5:48 PM
MFA alum @thanki.bsky.social's novel A Thousand Times Before and retired Prof Charles Baxter's novel Blood Test make multiple lists here! (including "Seriously Good Writing," naturally)
Hi! Since I haven’t posted on here really in a year, sharing some links!
+ more about me and my work
ashathanki.com
+ an easy lil link to my novel, which came out this summer in all her speculative historical intergenerational queer literary glory: bookshop.org/p/books/a-th...
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+ more about me and my work
ashathanki.com
+ an easy lil link to my novel, which came out this summer in all her speculative historical intergenerational queer literary glory: bookshop.org/p/books/a-th...
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Asha Thanki
Asha Thanki is the author of the novel A Thousand Times Before, forthcoming 2024 from Viking Books.
ashathanki.com
November 19, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Hi! Since I haven’t posted on here really in a year, sharing some links!
+ more about me and my work
ashathanki.com
+ an easy lil link to my novel, which came out this summer in all her speculative historical intergenerational queer literary glory: bookshop.org/p/books/a-th...
✌🏾🧿
+ more about me and my work
ashathanki.com
+ an easy lil link to my novel, which came out this summer in all her speculative historical intergenerational queer literary glory: bookshop.org/p/books/a-th...
✌🏾🧿
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"I knew I did not want my narrator to struggle with Orientalist otherness, or to write the overdone narrative of East-West push-pulls between children and their parents. I wanted to show love that felt as real to me as the loves I’ve lived"
MFA alum @thanki.bsky.social writes about her debut novel:
MFA alum @thanki.bsky.social writes about her debut novel:
Write More “Indianly,” or Else: Asha Thanki on the Trap of “Authentic” Writing
In 2000, Vikram Chandra wrote for The Boston Review on questions of “authentic writing.” He spent this essay pushing back against gatekeepers who believed in a particular canon of India…
lithub.com
July 11, 2024 at 3:36 PM
"I knew I did not want my narrator to struggle with Orientalist otherness, or to write the overdone narrative of East-West push-pulls between children and their parents. I wanted to show love that felt as real to me as the loves I’ve lived"
MFA alum @thanki.bsky.social writes about her debut novel:
MFA alum @thanki.bsky.social writes about her debut novel:
Too many apps and not sure which one we’re using!! But:
The days are lengthening again and I get to share with you this cover! This baby of mine! July 2024.
Thank you to the Viking team!!
The days are lengthening again and I get to share with you this cover! This baby of mine! July 2024.
Thank you to the Viking team!!
December 23, 2023 at 3:43 PM
Too many apps and not sure which one we’re using!! But:
The days are lengthening again and I get to share with you this cover! This baby of mine! July 2024.
Thank you to the Viking team!!
The days are lengthening again and I get to share with you this cover! This baby of mine! July 2024.
Thank you to the Viking team!!
I’m having coffee at my desk and I finally built my bed frame, and sunlight is bathing this room, so I guess this is my official announcement that I live in Brooklyn now!!
September 19, 2023 at 3:16 PM
I’m having coffee at my desk and I finally built my bed frame, and sunlight is bathing this room, so I guess this is my official announcement that I live in Brooklyn now!!
Drink a paloma with me at the end of the world? 🥹
Thank you Gettysburg Review!
Thank you Gettysburg Review!
August 1, 2023 at 5:32 PM
Drink a paloma with me at the end of the world? 🥹
Thank you Gettysburg Review!
Thank you Gettysburg Review!
Another app! Commence copy-pasting across everything until I learn better 😂
August 1, 2023 at 5:30 PM
Another app! Commence copy-pasting across everything until I learn better 😂