Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Best Small Fictions 2025. Over 40 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, Southeast Review, The Forge, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
Arthur Mandal
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Reading this at the moment. Really enjoying it, exquisitely written. Almost a third of the way through.
About 6 months ago I submitted a story to The Masters Review Winter Story Award (a journal I’d never had much luck with), and yesterday I got an email saying it had made it onto the longlist. Not exactly a win, but nice that it got into the last 2 percent of about 2,000 entries.
I read old LRB/NYRB issues a year or two late. This 2023 Jerome Groopman piece is grim: cancer treatment as lucrative market, with investors drawn to drugs that “don’t work too well” or cure too quickly—so the patient/customer keeps paying. Photos attached; paywalled link in comments.
Another beautiful piece by Natalie Marino.
I bought the FT’s weekend supplement for the first time today. Glossy pages of watches, luxury pens, designer pullovers and boutique-hotel décor laments. It seems written by people who do not occupy our reality. It’s called HTSI — How To Spend It. I wish I was making all of this up.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Photos from last week’s visit to Eh-Dan-Brah (I hope I got that phonetically correct). 2/2
Photos from last week’s visit to Eh-Dan-Brah (I hope I got that phonetically correct). 2/2
Sharing today some poems by Arun Kolatkar, who died over 20 years ago in Maharashtra. A wonderful poet: dry, sceptical, funny, yet oddly accepting about Hindu faith. Famously reclusive too — no lecture circuits or workshops. *Jejuri* is the classic, but there’s much more.
I'm going to be in Edinburgh, Scotland tomorrow for a few days – if anyone has any tips for a) bookshops b) restaurants would love to hear them (I almost always prefer human tips over digitally generated ones).
