Khitkhite Buri

Shinjini Dey critic, essayist, and a writer of tales

I barely use this site, but I updated my portfolio and would love if you commissioned me/said something nice about my work.

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It's embarrassing to be on here only to share my work, but here I am because it's on Eugene Lim and it was fun to write and I don't want to let that feeling go yet

I wrote this! And I'm damned pleased with it! And I'd be even happier if you read it!

Zeroing In "I am a landscape,' he said, a landscape and a person walking in that landscape. There are daunting cliffs there, and plains glad in their way of brown monotony. But especially there are sinkholes, places of sudden terror, of small circumference and malevolent depths?' 'I know,' she said. 'When I set forth to walk in myself, as it might be on a fine afternoon, forgetting, sooner or later I come to where sedge and clumps of white flowers, rue perhaps, mark the bogland, and I know there are quagmires there that can pull you down, and sink you in bubbling mud.' "We had an old dog,' he told her, 'when I was a boy, a good dog, friendly. But there was an injured spot on his head, if you happened just to touch it he'd jump up yelping and bite you. He bit a young child, they had to take him down to the vet's and destroy him?' "No one knows where it is,' she said, 'and even by accident no one touches it. It's inside my landscape, and only I, making my way preoccupied through my life,

•or flinch back just in time.' "Yes, we learn that. It's not terror, it's pain we're talking about: those places in us, like your dog's bruised head, that are bruised forever, that time never assuages, never.'

Denise Levertov

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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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.

The UN, WHO and MSF have all lost all contact with their Palestinian staff.

Near-total internet and cellular blackout hits Gaza as Israel ramps up strikes The largest telecommunications provider in Gaza that was still largely operational, Paltel, said Friday that it had suffered a complete disruption of all services.

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Islamic University of Gaza (which has 25,000 students) has been totally destroyed.

BDS NOW!!

‘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...

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?

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.

knitting circles should allow non-knitters to join if we’re good at gossip

Wait no! Looking into it right now. Thank you!

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.

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?

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.

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.

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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.

One of the greats of translation, Edith Grossman, has just died.

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”.

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.

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Moyra Davey, Index Cards

I failed the Sealey challenge on many occassions this month, but I did read about a dozen books of poetry.

Heather Treseler, Thoraic Ode

Amelia Rosselli's Hospital Series (New Directions, 2015)