I am thrilled that The Blind Writer is on the longlist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award, along with so many other terrific books.

I will be doing a reading and a Q&A @ UCLA on Thursday, January 21st from 4 to 6 pm in the Powell Library. Details here.

10.25.15: “Fiction Writers” panel @ Indo-American Arts Council Literary Festival, Hunter College, CUNY.

8.23.15: Reading and Signing, The Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA.

6.8.15: “First Book” panel @ Santa Barbara Writers Conference.

5.14.15: Reading and Signing, Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

4.28.15: Reading and Signing, Queens College, CUNY.

4.27.15: The Genevieve Lee Lecture,…

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I have a couple of different pieces out.

First, on Andy Murray at ESPN.com.

Second, a new short story called “A Housewarming” in Faultline, the journal produced by the MFA Program at UC Irvine.

I am beginning to do some sports writing and commentary for a start up site called LA Currents. Here is my first piece.

I have a piece out in Spin Magazine where I profile the Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra and her attempt to break into the American music business.

http://www.spin.com/articles/priyanka-chopra-actress-singer-album-william

Roughly five years after someone recommended I get a website and start blogging, I have finally followed the advice. Here, you will find a central home of all the work I have published in various places. And I will try to blog a little: on things that occur to me and on things that I…

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